{"id":34149,"date":"2025-11-09T20:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34149\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T20:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T20:30:06","slug":"inside-charred-apt-in-nyc-building-where-fdny-firefighter-patrick-brady-fatally-collapsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/34149\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside charred apt. in NYC building where FDNY firefighter Patrick Brady fatally collapsed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chilling video obtained by The Post reveals the first look inside a charred apartment at the Brooklyn building where a ferocious blaze broke out Saturday night, leaving veteran hero firefighter <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/09\/us-news\/fdny-firefighter-patrick-brady-killed-battling-five-alarm-blaze-in-brooklyn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Brady dead.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The apartment at the Kings Highway building was destroyed by flames, with its contents blackened and ruined, according to the footage and the building superintendent.<\/p>\n<p>An apartment is left in ruins from Saturday\u2019s deadly Brooklyn blaze. New York Post<\/p>\n<p>Only charred remains are left of the home\u2019s bed. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see lighters on the bed,\u201d the building\u2019s superintendent told The Post. \u201cThe ones investigating, they found them in there. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe smoked,\u201d he said of one of the residents. \u201cShe had cigarettes in the ashtray. She said to me, \u2018Oh, I fell asleep, I was sleeping, I was sleeping.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY has not announced the cause of the 9:30 p.m. blaze and did not respond to Post questions about which apartment the blaze started in and about the lighter and ashtray in one of the homes.<\/p>\n<p>Brady, 42, was on the roof while battling the flames when he suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>City firefighter Patrick Brady, 42, joined the FDNY in 2014 and suffered a fatal heart attack fighting the blaze Saturday. NYPD 100th Precinct<\/p>\n<p>The furniture inside one of the building\u2019s apartments is left in shambles. Gregory P. Mango<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Brady\u2019s widow, Kara, and his two FDNY brothers, Jimmy and Brian, were on hand <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/09\/us-news\/widow-fdny-siblings-of-fallen-firefighter-patrick-brady-weep-as-bunting-is-put-up-at-firehouse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for a touching bunting ceremony<\/a> at his Brownsville firehouse to honor him.<\/p>\n<p>Brady joined New York\u2019s Bravest in 2014 and was assigned to Ladder 120.<\/p>\n<p>The couple married April 1, 2023, after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/09\/us-news\/fallen-bravest-patrick-bradys-april-fools-prank-provides-cheeky-glimpse-into-fdny-hero\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pranking 300 friends and relatives<\/a> by inviting them to a promised birthday party \u2014 only to surprise them with an April Fool\u2019s Day joke, as it turned out the event was their wedding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chilling video obtained by The Post reveals the first look inside a charred apartment at the Brooklyn building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,194,544,57,9,56,63,65,64,58,1115],"class_list":{"0":"post-34149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-fdny","10":"tag-fires","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-us-news","18":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34149","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=34149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}