Crime & Safety
One Hurt In Fire In Vacant Bed-Stuy Building, FDNY Says
More than 130 firefighters were sent to the Gates Avenue blaze, which took nearly five hours to put out, according to officials.
BED-STUY, BROOKLYN — More than 130 firefighters spent nearly five hours battling a blaze in a vacant Bed-Stuy building on Monday morning, according to fire officials.
The three-alarm fire broke out in a building under construction at 394 Gates Ave., near Nostrand Avenue, just before 6 a.m., FDNY officials said.
About 33 crews and 138 firefighters were sent to the building, which also had at least partially collapsed, according to an FDNY spokesperson. The spokesperson did not specify whether the collapse happened before or after the fire began.
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The fire was under control by around 10:30 a.m., according to FDNY.
It sent one firefighter to the hospital. Their condition was not immediately available, according to the spokesperson.
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FDNY officials had originally said the address of the fire was 357 Nostrand Ave. It was later corrected to 394 Gates Ave., according to the spokesperson.
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