Downtown Brooklyn Fire Engulfs Jewelry Store, Dentist's Office

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN, NY — Flames tore through a line of storefronts along Fulton Street near the intersection of Fulton and Flatbush Avenue on Wednesday afternoon, sending billows of smoke over Downtown Brooklyn and causing a frenzy on street level.

Reports of a fire on the bottom floor of 585 Fulton St. came in just before 4 p.m., according to the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY). The building contains a hole-in-the wall jewelry shop called Kims Jewelry and Watches; a MetroPCS cellphone store; the offices of Atlantic Dental; and a couple other shops.

An FDNY spokesman said the "small fire" caused no injuries. It was declared under control by around 4:45 p.m.

However, an Instagram user named bkstacey reported watching a harrowing scene unfold on Fulton as flames leapt from the jewelry store.

"I feel so f**king bad for my jewelry guy his store and others up in smokes," she wrote. "He was fighting to go back in I saw from the window. His whole business gone! Hope no one loses their life. The flames are crazy now!"

"He's been there for YEARSSSSS," she wrote. "They was fighting him and holding him back. So sad. ... He wanted to go out like a captain and his ship it appeared."

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