Brooklyn Raises $70K For Popular Nightclub, Tenant Following Fire

BROOKLYN, NY — One person is in serious condition and a popular Brooklyn nightclub is closed indefinitely after a fire on Myrtle Avenue earlier this week, according to officials and the bar.

The blaze "completely obliterated" an apartment above Bossa Nova Civic Club when it broke out on the third floor just after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the bar and FDNY.

"...When I opened the door (miracle it was unlocked) their whole kitchen was in flames up to the ceiling," Bossa Nova employee Julian C. Duron recalled on Instagram, according to the Bushwick Daily.

After yelling into the apartment to see if anyone was home and calling 911, Duron and others from the building tried to put out the fire with extinguishers, but quickly realized the blaze had gotten too big, according to the post.

"...We were choking so we ran outside," he wrote.

Fire officials ultimately saved a woman who had been trapped inside the apartment by bringing her through a window onto a ladder, according to Duron and the FDNY.

"...Literally 5-10 more seconds and she would have been dead," Duron wrote.

The woman was taken to Harlem Hospital and is in serious but stable condition, fire officials said. One of the tenant's dogs died in the blaze, according to a fundraiser for the building.

The GoFundMe had raised nearly $70,000 for Bossa Nova Civic Club and the tenants since being posted on Thursday morning.

Bossa Nova, a popular dance spot, is closed due to a "tremendous amount of damage" to the building, according to the fundraiser.

"This space is a second home to a lot of us and has cultivated many careers, friendships and chosen families," they wrote. "Bossa has endured but survived an extreme amount of adversities, during a pandemic no less. This level of harm needs the full backing of the community to restore. Please help us, thank you."

Find the fundraiser here.