Two men were killed in a fire at a Brooklyn apartment Sunday night, authorities said.
Around 6:45 p.m., 60 firefighters and paramedics were rushed to the scene after flames broke out in part of the four-story building at 159 Bay 29th Street, the FDNY said.
The fire was extinguished in about an hour by people breathing in the smoke, police said.
Two unidentified men were found unresponsive on the second floor of a building in the Bath Beach area and were pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
Further information about the two victims was not available early Monday. Police said the city medical examiner’s office will determine the cause of their deaths.
Two firefighters also suffered minor injuries in the fire, according to the FDNY.
Other residents of the apartment were also evacuated after the fire.
As they rushed to safety, neighbors saw a man lighting a fire and screaming. According to CBS2.
“There was a man on fire…people walking downstairs…the door was open and the man was on fire. They couldn’t help him,” eyewitness Pasquale M. told the station. Told.
Another neighbor told CBS 2 that earlier calls for help had been raised in the second-floor room at the center of Sunday’s fire.
“I’ve lived here for two years, and when they get drunk and fall asleep, they put something on the stove, turn it on, and over time it starts to burn, and the fire department comes and puts it out. ” said a neighbor who requested anonymity.
Fire marshals will determine the cause of the deadly inferno as an investigation into the fire is underway.
