Brooklyn blaze leaves 6 injured

Fire Department officials are investigating a suspicious four-alarm fire that reduced a newly renovated Brooklyn home to a burnt skeleton of itself and left six people injured — including three children and a firefighter — Thursday morning, fire department officials said.

All eight
residents — four adults and four children — managed to escape the blaze at their home at 1312 Glenwood Road, which erupted about 4:40 a.m. in Ditmas Park, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. Two adults and three children were taken to Kings County Hospital where they were listed in stable condition. A firefighter also suffered minor injuries, Nigro said.

Firefighters arrived at the three-story wooden house within minutes of being alerted to the inferno and immediately called for backup, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said.


"(Firefighters) arrived in three minutes to a wall of fire. The whole front of this building was in flames," Nigro said.

"This fire is under investigation. This large body of fire on arrival was immediately a second alarm."

The massive fire appeared to start on the front porch, Nigro said.

A neighborhood resident informed firefighters of a similar porch fire in the neighborhood in March, and fire officials were looking into the possibility of an arsonist in the area, Nigro said.

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Five people were injured in the fire and rushed to hospital.
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The cause of fire is under investigation.
"(The fire) is certainly suspicious," he said.

Details about the previous fire were not immediately known.

A second house was also damaged when the fire spread next door.

Next-door neighbors who live at the of Glenwood Road and Argyle Road were awoken when the flames jumped to their house, filling the residents' bedroom with smoke.

"The smoke woke us up, it was crazy," said the owner of the second home, who declined to give his name.

"We were just hoping everyone was OK."

One woman who was woken up from the sound of the flames said the fire was so intense she feared it might leap across the street to her home.

"The crackling of the flames woke me up!" said Tzvia Ehrman (sic). "I wake up and I'm in shock."

"I saw huge flames shooting out of the house. It was giant. Flames were shooting out of the windows!"

Ehrman said the residents spent the last year renovating the home and just recently moved back in.

"Besides the people who were injured it's just so sad about the house after all that work."