{"id":328906,"date":"2026-08-25T01:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328906\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T01:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T01:32:33","slug":"fire-breaks-out-in-brooklyn-apartment-days-after-body-found-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328906\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out in Brooklyn apartment days after body found"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAY RIDGE, Brooklyn (PIX11) \u2014 An unsettling chain of events in Brooklyn is under investigation.<\/p>\n

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

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Video shows fire inside a building at 9949 Shore Road that broke out on the sixth floor.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAY RIDGE, Brooklyn (PIX11) \u2014 An unsettling chain of events in Brooklyn is under investigation. First, a body…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-328906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328906","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=328906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}