One person died after a fire broke out in a Brooklyn apartment building early Thursday morning, cops and firefighters said.
The unidentified victim’s lifeless body was found after the blaze ignited inside the Ocean Ave. building near Avenue W in Sheepshead Bay just before 2 a.m., police said.
An unidentified person was pronounced dead after a fire broke out inside a second-floor apartment at 2709 Ocean Ave. in Brooklyn on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
A total of 79 firefighters and medics were called to battle the blaze, which was extinguished around 3:43 a.m., according to an FDNY spokesman.
An unidentified person was pronounced dead after a fire broke out inside a second-floor apartment at 2709 Ocean Ave. in Brooklyn on Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
One resident was displaced as a result of the blaze, cops said.
A fire marshal will investigate the cause of the fire.