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House fire in Brooklyn kills 6 people and injures 9 as more than 200 firefighters respond

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 4:14 PM · 1 min read
House fire in Brooklyn kills 6 people and injures 9 as more than 200 firefighters respond — Pinecrest Real Estate news

NEW YORK (AP) — A fire barreled through a two-story home in New York early Thursday, killing six people and injuring nine others, including three firefighters and two police officers, the city's fire department said.More than 200 first responders quickly got to the fire in the row house in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood. A cause has not been determined yet.“Upon arrival, we had fire on every floor,” Kevin Woods, the department's chief of fire operations, said at a news conference near the severely charred wood home. “Fire blowing out every window, meeting us at the front door.”Firefighters rescued four people, getting through a rear entrance in the two-unit home to get to two people who were trapped behind window bars, he said.The fire, which also damaged an adjoining home, was brought under control in about three hours. Eight neighbors were displaced and were taken to hotels.“This was a devastating fire,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at the news conference. “It will take a long time

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