{"id":241812,"date":"2026-05-23T17:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241812\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T17:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:21:12","slug":"two-killed-as-massive-blaze-rips-through-brooklyn-apartment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241812\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed as massive blaze rips through Brooklyn apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:FDNY;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;FDNY&quot;}\" class=\"link \">FDNY<\/a> officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Responding firefighters pulled four tenants from the burning building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two people were pronounced dead on scene after a fire broke out inside a three-story mixed-use building at 1693 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 23, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News) Firefighters on the scene where two people were pronounced dead on scene after a fire broke out inside a three-story mixed-use building at 1693 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 23, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News) Firefighters on the scene where two people were pronounced dead on scene after a fire broke out inside a three-story mixed-use building at 1693 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 23, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News) Firefighters on the scene where two people were pronounced dead on scene after a fire broke out inside a three-story mixed-use building at 1693 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 23, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News) Show Caption1 of 5Two people were pronounced dead on scene after a fire broke out inside a three-story mixed-use building at 1693 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 23, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<a href=\"#\" class=\"link \" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Expand;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Expand&quot;}\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire was extinguished at about 7:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The FDNY Fire Marshal was trying to determine what sparked the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:fatal fires this year;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;fatal fires this year&quot;}\" class=\"link \">fatal fires this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As of Monday, 46 people have died in fires this year \u2014 a 64% jump from the 28 deaths logged last year, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":241813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,30519,9,24,14051,66807,63,13286],"class_list":["post-241812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-massive-fire","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-nostrand-ave","tag-nyc","tag-theodore-parisienne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241812","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=241812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}