Two families – six adults and two children – are seeking shelter with the Red Cross after a fire tore through a home on East 58th Street between J and K avenues in Brooklyn’s Flatlands neighborhood Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
Firefighters responded just before noon after heavy flames broke out, trapping two residents inside. First responders rescued both residents, who suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n
“I just said, ‘Oh my God. Fire.’ I told my patient, ‘Fire, fire, fire,'” said Sofia Taylor, a home aide who arrived at her patient’s house across the street a few minutes after firefighters wrapped up.<\/p>\n
Nearly 80 first responders rushed into the home as flames and smoke met them at the door, leaving neighbors stunned by the rescue mission.<\/p>\n
“Our prayers and thoughts are with them. Hopefully they’ll recover shortly and get back to their regular lives,” said Henry, a Flatlands resident.<\/p>\n
Henry said he was relieved to see firefighters carrying an older woman out of the home.<\/p>\n
“To my shock, firefighters eventually brought out one of the occupants, an older lady. The fireman carried her in his arms. Very heroic,” he said. “They put their lives at risk. And what I saw today, I was really impressed with it.”<\/p>\n
Families returning home from work and school were met with the destruction, with some stepping through broken glass to collect what belongings they could.<\/p>\n
The fire left walls ripped open and stained with soot, with extensive damage throughout the home.<\/p>\n
Fire marshals recovered a battery at the scene, but sources say the department does not believe it caused the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two families – six adults and two children – are seeking shelter with the Red Cross after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-373516","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\/373516","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=373516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}