Flames poured from the windows of a sixth-floor apartment in Bay Ridge early Monday, hours after a man was found dead inside the same apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Residents in the building on Shore Road woke up around 1 a.m. to the sound of fire engines outside their front door.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The man was found dead in the apartment on Sunday after residents reported a bad smell coming from the sixth floor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYesterday when I came home from a pool party, there were cop cars out here. They said that they had called in a bad smell on the sixth floor,\u201d building resident Tessa Garcia said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a body, it seemed. I believe police came at that point, but they were waiting for the medical examiner until very late at night,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police have not identified the man but said he died of natural causes and that his death was not considered suspicious.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Red Cross says two households are now receiving emergency assistance after their apartments were damaged when firefighters worked to put out the flames.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to residents, the man was a hoarder, and they complained about odors coming from the apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe lived in squalor on the sixth floor,\u201d Derek Sabido said. \u201cHe had mounds of cat food that was spoiled. He had pounds of feces on his floor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s concerning, this man kind of lived in a hoarding way and there had been complaints about smells and other challenges,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cSo, it is concerning that there was sort of a safety issue that became then a real safety issue. You know this could\u2019ve been a lot worse than it was.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The chief medical examiner is working to determine the cause of the man’s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flames poured from the windows of a sixth-floor apartment in Bay Ridge early Monday, hours after a man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[387,25,98,100,99,9,24,12,63,1174,308,27,200],"class_list":["post-329162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-olivia-leach","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329162","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=329162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}