Over 130 firefighters, EMTs and paramedics responded. All three floors of the brownstone were completely charred.
NEW YORK -- Three people are dead and 12 are hospitalized after a home in Brooklyn went up in flames early Sunday. FDNY got a call about the fire at a home on Albany Avenue in Crown Heights at around 4:30 a.m. and saw heavy smoke and flames pouring out of every floor when they arrived.An 81-year-old woman, 58-year-old man and 33-year-old man were pronounced dead after being taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition.
It took over 130 firefighters, EMTs and paramedics to evacuate the building, perform CPR on the most-critically injured and get the fire under control. 'A fire operation like this when you have heavy fire on multiple floors of a building is time consuming to extinguish. We have to stretch multiple hand lines to each floor, a very dangerous operation for our firefighters.
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