The FDNY says a fire that started around 1:50 p.m. Friday damaged multiple buildings on Weirfield Street in Bushwick.<\/p>\n
The fire was reported on the top floor of the building. About 192 EMS and firefighters responded.<\/p>\n
Residents like Mia say there was a lot of smoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just kept smoking and smoking. I put the fan in my room and a gush of smoke comes under the wall and my room just completely filled,” said Mia.<\/p>\n
Fire officials say the buildings are attached and wood-frame, which caused the fire to spread quickly.<\/p>\n
FDNY Assistant Deputy Assistant Chief Tim Keenan says the fire was put out before 3:30 p.m. and could have spread to the rest of the block if not for the quick work of the firefighters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have attached old wood frame buildings, any fire starts to spread very rapidly. And in a situation like this, when you have a cockloft that goes over all of them, once the fire gets in that cockloft, it’s very difficult to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The FDNY says nobody was injured. Residents like Abigail say she’s coming to terms with the damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was raised here so all my memories, I\u2019m getting flashbacks. I\u2019ll be OK and I\u2019m just glad that my family is OK,” said Abigail.<\/p>\n
The FDNY says the cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n
News 12 reached out to the Red Cross to see how many families were impacted by the fire, but hasn’t yet heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FDNY says a fire that started around 1:50 p.m. Friday damaged multiple buildings on Weirfield Street in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-226005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}