Ebbets Field Fire In PLG Injures One: FDNY

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS, BROOKLYN — An early morning fire at the Ebbets Field Apartments took about 45 minutes to subdue and sent one resident to the hospital, according to the FDNY.

Smoke eaters arrived at 77 Sullivan Pl. about 2:30 a.m. for a fire in an apartment on the 16th floor of the 25-story, 1,300-unit complex, an FDNY official told Patch.

The official did not specify how the call came in nor how many FDNY personnel responded.

By 3:14 a.m., officials said the fire was under control.

One resident suffered a minor injury and was sent to Kings County Hospital, the FDNY official said.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation, authorities said.

In 2008, firefighter Lt. John H. Martinson, serving Brooklyn’s Engine Company 249 at the time, died while fighting a blaze in an apartment on the 14th floor of another building in the Ebbets Field Apartments complex.

That 2008 fire was caused by a resident using her stove to warm her inadequately heated apartment, according to the New York Times.

In 2018, a tenant told Patch that fires are common at the Ebbets Field Apartments.

"Just fire. Non-stop," said the tenant, who pleaded for months with her landlords to fix a three-foot-wide hole in her balconyafter a fire tore through her third-story home.