{"id":333016,"date":"2026-08-30T03:38:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333016\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T03:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:38:51","slug":"brooklyn-nycha-fire-kills-18-year-old-man-at-albany-houses-officials-say-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333016\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn NYCHA fire kills 18-year-old man at Albany Houses, officials say \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old man is dead after a fire broke out Friday evening in a NYCHA building in Brooklyn, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The fire happened at the Albany Houses on Troy Ave. near Prospect Pl. in Crown Heights. Authorities said the fire started on the 12th floor of the 14-story building.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed the 18-year-old man died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The call came in at about 7:04 p.m. Friday.  Officials said 38 units and about 120 fire and EMS personnel responded.<\/p>\n<p>EMS transported one civilian with serious, life-threatening injuries to Interfaith Hospital, officials said. Authorities later confirmed the person died.<\/p>\n<p>A HazMat response was requested, according to officials.  The fire was brought under control by about 7:56 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are working to determine what sparked the fire.  The name of the person who died has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC New York. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC New York journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man is dead after a fire broke out Friday evening in a NYCHA building in Brooklyn,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-333016","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\/333016","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=333016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}