{"id":232610,"date":"2026-05-15T12:32:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232610\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T12:32:42","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-heavy-smoke-pours-over-brownsville-during-overnight-fire-on-chester-street-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/232610\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Heavy Smoke Pours Over Brownsville During Overnight Fire On Chester Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Firefighters battled a large overnight fire at a building on Chester Street in Brownsville that sent heavy smoke pouring into the sky.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">FDNY says the fire broke out just before 2:40 a.m. Thursday at 123 Chester Ave., between Pitkin and Sutter avenues.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Video recorded from a distance shows thick smoke rising over the neighborhood as fire trucks rushed to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say the fire started on the second floor before spreading into part of the roof area. The large response brought dozens of firefighters and EMS personnel to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">FDNY says 46 units and 141 fire and EMS personnel responded. The fire was brought under control around 3:28 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters battled a large overnight fire at a building on Chester Street in Brownsville that sent heavy smoke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-232610","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\/232610","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=232610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}