{"id":332826,"date":"2026-08-29T20:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332826\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T20:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T20:12:40","slug":"teen-killed-in-brooklyn-fire-sparked-by-lithium-ion-battery-fdny-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332826\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen killed in Brooklyn fire sparked by lithium-ion battery: FDNY"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 18-year-old boy died as a fire sparked by a lithium-ion battery<\/a> tore through a Brooklyn apartment, FDNY officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n

The blaze marked the second fatal fire in the city this year<\/a> caused by a lithium-ion battery, officials said.<\/p>\n

Neighbors said an explosion erupted inside a 12th-floor apartment at NYCHA’s Albany Houses<\/a> on Troy Ave. near Bergen St. in Crown Heights about 7 p.m. on Friday, officials said.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed the teen from the fire apartment to Intefaith Medical Center<\/a>, where he later died. His name was not immediately disclosed.<\/p>\n

More than 120 firefighters were called to the scene to douse the blaze, which was put out within an hour.<\/p>\n

“The fire was contained in just their apartment. It didn’t spread anywhere else,” a neighbor, who wished not to be named, said. “We were here when the fire started. We were able to stay inside.”<\/p>\n

FDNY Fire Marshals are investigating, but officials believe the fire was sparked by a lithium-ion battery found in the apartment.<\/p>\n

The first fatality related to a lithium-ion battery fire<\/a> this year occurred on June 26 when a 48-year-old Queens man who scrambled out a window to escape a massive blaze sparked by an e-bike battery died, fire officials said.<\/p>\n

The fire ignited after a battery charging in the kitchen of a basement apartment at the two-story home on 91st Ave. near 172nd St. in Jamaica exploded about 12:14 a.m., according to FDNY First Deputy Commissioner Daniel Flynn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed four victims to Nassau County Medical Center, including two with serious injuries.<\/p>\n

The victim was in his bedroom when the fire cut off his access to the main entrance, Flynn said.<\/p>\n

Residents were able to escape from a rear window, but the victim waited for his family to exit before leaving and sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n

He died in the hospital about two weeks later, fire officials said.<\/p>\n

Flynn said the e-bike the battery powered had been left outside<\/a>, but the tenant took the battery into the apartment to charge it.<\/p>\n

The tenant had left it charging “between the front door and (the victim’s bedroom), which precluded the occupants from escaping safely from the home.”<\/p>\n

Deaths related to lithium-ion battery fires have steadily decreased in New York City since explosions caused by the devices<\/a> killed 18 people in 2023. In 2024, six people died due to battery fires, while only one person was killed in a lithium-ion battery fire in 2025.<\/p>\n

While fatal fires remain low, Flynn said the number of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries have still increased about 70% this year.<\/p>\n

FDNY Chief Fire Marshal Michael Kavanagh noted at a press conference in July that an increasing amount of battery-related fires are happening outdoors, with 137 non-structural fires in 2026 as compared to 48 at this time last year.<\/p>\n

“The biggest change is where we’re seeing these fires happening,” said Kavanagh. “These non-structural fires are occurring outside of buildings, businesses and homes. That’s driving the overall increase in incidents.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old boy died as a fire sparked by a lithium-ion battery tore through a Brooklyn apartment, FDNY…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[125207,102681,41666,125206,98,100,99,99140,194,125201,81993,125204,125200,125202,125205,9,24,63,125203,122],"class_list":["post-332826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-172nd-st","tag-18-year-old","tag-41666","tag-91st-ave","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-daniel-flynn","tag-fdny","tag-fdny-fire-marshals","tag-flynn","tag-intefaith-medical-center","tag-kavanagh","tag-michael-kavanagh","tag-nassau-county-medical-center","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nychas-albany-houses","tag-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332826","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=332826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}