{"id":248742,"date":"2026-05-30T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248742\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T12:41:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T12:41:47","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-1-person-hospitalized-following-lithium-ion-battery-fire-in-fort-greene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/248742\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 1 Person Hospitalized Following Lithium Ion Battery Fire In Fort Greene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A fire in a Fort Greene high\u2011rise sent one person to the hospital on Friday night, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The call came in around 11 p.m. for a fire on the eighth floor of a 13\u2011story residential building at 68 Cumberland Walk, between Park Avenue and Carlton Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire officials said 21 units and 79 FDNY and EMS personnel responded. A specialized hazmat unit was requested due to the presence of a lithium\u2011ion battery at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One civilian was transported to a local hospital. No additional information on their condition was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fire was placed under control at 11:32 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire in a Fort Greene high\u2011rise sent one person to the hospital on Friday night, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-248742","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\/248742","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=248742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}