{"id":269358,"date":"2026-06-17T09:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269358\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:56:45","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-five-people-hospitalized-after-overnight-fire-at-van-dyke-houses-in-brownsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269358\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Five People Hospitalized After Overnight Fire At Van Dyke Houses In Brownsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Five people were taken to the hospital after an overnight fire inside an apartment building at the Van Dyke Houses in Brownsville.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the FDNY, crews were called to 431 Dumont Ave. around 1:32 a.m. Wednesday for reports of fire and smoke inside the three-story apartment building.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fire started on the first floor and was brought under control just over thirty minutes later, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Five residents were taken to Brookdale Hospital with minor injuries. Officials say all are expected to be OK.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">By sunrise, signs of the fire were still visible behind the building. Several windows had been boarded up, and charred items could be seen outside the building.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The American Red Cross was also at the scene Wednesday morning, looking for anyone who may need help following the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It is not yet clear whether how many families have been displaced or how many apartments have been affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people were taken to the hospital after an overnight fire inside an apartment building at the Van&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-269358","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\/269358","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=269358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}