{"id":229822,"date":"2026-05-13T11:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229822\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:49:47","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-fire-rips-through-part-of-cypress-hills-building-lithium-ion-batteries-found-on-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/229822\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Fire Rips Through Part Of Cypress Hills Building Lithium Ion Batteries Found On Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A large overnight fire tore through part of a building in Cypress Hills, leaving behind burned bikes, scooters and heavy damage across the property.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">FDNY says the fire broke out just after 1:20 a.m. Wednesday at 503 Ridgewood Ave., near Lincoln and Autumn avenues. Firefighters say flames were reported on the first floor of the three-story building.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Video from the Citizen app shows huge flames shooting from the back of the property as sirens echoed through the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">FDNY says 21 units and 79 fire and EMS personnel responded to the scene. Hazmat crews were also called in because of the presence of lithium-ion batteries. The fire was brought under control around 2:13 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say no injuries were reported. A full vacate order has now been posted on the property.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbor Jose Mena said the situation could have turned deadly. \u201cI came out and by the time I came out, the fire was spreading already,\u201d Mena said. \u201cOne of the guys who lives there, he was trying to wake everybody up. This could\u2019ve been worse \u2014 a lot worse. People were sleeping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large overnight fire tore through part of a building in Cypress Hills, leaving behind burned bikes, scooters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-229822","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\/229822","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=229822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}