Two young women were left clinging to life and three others were hurt when an early Thursday fire swept through a four-story Brooklyn apartment building, officials said.<\/p>\n
The blaze erupted around 1:30 a.m. inside the building on Eastern Parkway near Troy Avenue in Crown Heights, leaving the women \u2013 24 and 26 \u2013 suffering from smoke inhalation and listed in critical condition, according to the FDNY and NYPD.<\/p>\n
Both women were taken to the Kings County Hospital Center, while a 55-year-old woman also found in the burning building was taken to Staten Island University Hospital South in stable condition, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two women, 24 and 26, were critically injured in the blaze inside the Crown Heights building on Eastern Parkway near Troy Avenue, cops said. Gabriella Bass<\/p>\n
A 55-year-old woman was also hospitalized in stable condition, police said. Gabriella Bass<\/p>\n
The cause of the blaze remains under investigation by the FDNY\u2019s fire marshals. Gabriella Bass<\/p>\n
She appears to be related to the 24-year-old victim, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another civilian was taken to Interfaith Hospital with a minor injury, and a fifth person refused medical attention, fire officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The blaze drew a dozen FDNY units \u2013 including 60 cops and firefighters \u2013 to the scene, the department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The fire was placed under control by 2:15 a.m., and its cause remains under investigation by fire marshals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two young women were left clinging to life and three others were hurt when an early Thursday fire…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":272677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,38535,6525,4216,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-272676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-crown-heights","11":"tag-fdny","12":"tag-fires","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115306317954505672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}