{"id":351522,"date":"2026-09-20T04:24:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T04:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351522\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T04:24:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T04:24:54","slug":"firefighter-injured-while-battling-fire-that-destroyed-beloved-brooklyn-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351522\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter injured while battling fire that destroyed beloved Brooklyn restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (PIX11) \u2014 The FDNY is investigating the cause of a fire that tore through a longtime restaurant in Williamsburg and injured a firefighter battling the blaze.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fire officials tell PIX11 News the fire broke out at Juliette, a beloved Williamsburg restaurant, just before 5:30 p.m. Saturday evening\u00a0and quickly grew to four alarms, prompting a response from more than 200 fire and EMS personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Flames spread to a neighboring restaurant, according to the FDNY, which also reported a collapse at Juliette.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Discover more local reporting on our homepage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Discover more local reporting on our homepage\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dave Bryant described the thick smoke that billowed into the sky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Smelled smoke first and looked out the window and it was \u2014 you couldn&#8217;t see your hand if front of your face because there was smoke everywhere,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Juliette opened nearly 20 years ago, according to its website, and has since become a neighborhood staple.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One firefighter suffered a minor injury and had to be treated by EMS, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cause of the fire is still under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILLIAMSBURG, Brooklyn (PIX11) \u2014 The FDNY is investigating the cause of a fire that tore through a longtime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,131286,194,12069,131287,9,24,63,329],"class_list":["post-351522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-dave-bryant","tag-fdny","tag-fire-officials","tag-juliette","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pix11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351522","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=351522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}