{"id":328336,"date":"2026-08-24T12:56:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328336\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T12:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T12:56:52","slug":"fire-breaks-out-in-brooklyn-apartment-days-after-body-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328336\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out in Brooklyn apartment days after body found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BAY RIDGE, Brooklyn (PIX11) &#8212; An unsettling chain of events in Brooklyn is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">First, a body was discovered inside a Brooklyn apartment after neighbors complained about a bad smell. Then, on Monday morning, a fire broke out in the same unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Discover more local reporting on our homepage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Discover more local reporting on our homepage\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video shows fire inside a building at 9949 Shore Road that broke out on the sixth floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The superintendent, Robert Rodriguez, told PIX11 News that on Friday, neighbors complained of a bad smell. Police discovered a body inside the apartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While building management was waiting for police to return and pick up the body, a fire broke out in the unit at around 1 a.m. on Monday, the superintendent says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was reportedly a man in his 70s, according to the superintendent. It remains unknown how long the man had been dead for before his body was discovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The death and the fire are under investigation. Rodriguez says about six units suffered water damage. The American Red Cross is helping families impacted by the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAY RIDGE, Brooklyn (PIX11) &#8212; An unsettling chain of events in Brooklyn is under investigation. First, a body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7727,98,100,99,9,24,63,329,121895],"class_list":["post-328336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bay-ridge","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pix11","tag-robert-rodriguez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328336","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=328336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}