Crime & Safety

Midnight Fire Erupts on Jefferson Avenue

No injuries were reported

A fire erupted late Tuesday night on the second floor of a three-story building located at 1041 Jefferson Avenue.

A dozen fire trucks and at least 60 firefighters were called to Jefferson and Broadway Avenue just before midnight on Tuesday when reports of a fire ignited and was spreading from the second to the third floor of a wood-frame building on the border of Bed-Stuy and Bushwick.

The fire was brought under control at around 12:30 a.m. No injuries were reported, and fire investigators are looking into the fire's cause.

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1041 Jefferson Avenue| DC-15 reports main body of fire K/D on 2nd floor with slight extension to the 3rd. Primary searches negative, secondary searches underwayreports fire on the top floor of a 3 story


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