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A 67-year-old man was hurt – and two firefighters briefly trapped – when a raging blaze broke out early Wednesday, causing a partial collapse in a Brooklyn home with a hoarding condition, the FDNY said.
Firefighters responded just after 4 a.m. to the two-story home on East 9th Street near Foster Avenue in Kensington, where they encountered heavy fire on the first and second floors, officials said.
Units found a 67-year-old man in the basement, who was not breathing and in cardiac arrest, the FDNY said.
“Our members did a fantastic job under heavy clutter conditions, a lot of debris,” FDNY Deputy Chief Joseph Duggan, Jr. told reporters. “And when we removed him from the basement through the rear basement doors, Ladder 157 quickly removed him and turned him over to EMS. “
He was taken to Maimonides Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition Wednesday afternoon, police said.
“Subsequently we had a collapse of the second floor into the first floor, very briefly pinning two of our members,” Duggan said.
Those firefighters were quickly removed and hospitalized with minor injuries. Three additional firefighters were also hospitalized with minor injuries, according to Duggan.
The cause of the blaze remained under investigation later in the day, but Duggan said the building had a “Collyer’s Mansion-type condition” — a reference to the infamous brothers who were found dead inside their Harlem brownstone in 1947 amid a severe hoarding condition.
“We encountered a lot of debris, a lot of internal cluttering on the first and second floors,” Duggan said. “We think the fire was running for some time before we were notified of it.”
A total of 138 firefighters responded to the fire, which was under control by around 6:20 a.m., the FDNY said.
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