A firefighter is recovering in the hospital, and multiple people are displaced, after a 2-alarm fire Wednesday afternoon in Bushwick. <\/p>\n
The FDNY said the fire started around 12:45 p.m. at 1086 Myrtle Ave., located between Lewis Ave. and Broadway. <\/p>\n
Multiple tenants told News 12 that people lived in several \u201ccollege-like dorms\u201d on the second floor above the Tabernacle of Praise Church of God in Christ. <\/p>\n
Citizen App video showed thick black smoke and flames shooting from the building. <\/p>\n
Fire officials said it took about 140 first responders approximately 90 minutes to get it under control. <\/p>\n
An FDNY source on scene told News 12 that they found propane tanks on the roof of the building, where there’s a patio area. The tanks did not appear to start the fire, and the exact cause is under investigation. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe heard a boom [while we were in] our room, and then the girl who lives in [another unit] came and knocked on our door and said, \u2018Fire,\u2019\u201d said Peter Vandunk, a tenant. \u201cSo, as we were rushing out, there was a fire extinguisher. I grabbed it and tried to go up there to see what was going on, but then [the fire] got too big for the fire extinguisher.\u201d <\/p>\n
Tenants said the smoke alarms inside of the building went off, but the sprinkler system did not. <\/p>\n
The Department of Buildings was on scene investigating. <\/p>\n
The Red Cross was also on location to help tenants. As of Wednesday evening, it was unclear exactly how many people were displaced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A firefighter is recovering in the hospital, and multiple people are displaced, after a 2-alarm fire Wednesday afternoon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-238713","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\/238713","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=238713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}