{"id":241661,"date":"2026-05-23T13:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241661\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T13:33:09","slug":"two-killed-as-massive-blaze-rips-through-brooklyn-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241661\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed as massive blaze rips through Brooklyn apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are dead after a massive fire tore through a Brooklyn apartment early Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/fdny\/index.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FDNY<\/a> officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out on the second floor inside the three-story Nostrand Ave. building near Beverly Road in East Flatbush at about 6:50 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Responding firefighters pulled four tenants from the burning building.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the tenants died at the scene, FDNY officials said. The other two were taken to area hospitals with serious, but not life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was extinguished at about 7:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY Fire Marshal was trying to determine what sparked the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s blaze comes as the city combats a massive increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/05\/18\/twin-siblings-critically-injured-in-bronx-fire-dies-bringing-family-death-toll-to-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatal fires this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday,\u00a046 people have died in fires this year \u2014 a 64% jump from the 28 deaths logged last year, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause range the gamut from electrical fires to accidents, to arson, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead after a massive fire tore through a Brooklyn apartment early Saturday, FDNY officials said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-241661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241661","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=241661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}