{"id":333764,"date":"2026-08-31T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333764\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:20:42","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-18-year-old-dies-in-crown-heights-apartment-explosion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333764\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | 18 Year Old Dies In Crown Heights Apartment Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An 18-year-old man has died in Crown Heights apartment explosion Friday evening, according to the NYPD and FDNY. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Firefighters responded to a 911 call for an explosion at the Albany Houses located at 162 Troy Ave. at 7:04 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The explosion created heavy fire and smoke that firefighters battled until it was extinguished at 7:56 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fire was on the twelfth floor of the 14-story building.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A total of 38 units and 120 FDNY and EMS personnel responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">EMS transported the man to Interfaith Medical Center in critical condition, where he was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A hazmat unit was requested to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The cause remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The identity of the victim has not yet been released. <br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man has died in Crown Heights apartment explosion Friday evening, according to the NYPD and FDNY.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-333764","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\/333764","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=333764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}