A three-alarm apartment fire erupted in Brooklyn early Saturday morning, leaving dozens of residents out in the cold. Twenty-nine residents are now without a home after the devastating fire, which left charred remains of the large house.
Just after midnight, firefighters responded to fire alarms blaring through the residence on 85th Street near 20th Avenue in Bensonhurst.
They battled through thick black smoke to get in through the roof as flames shot out from a balcony around the side of the structure. Within minutes, the whole roof was ablaze.
“I was in my room, my bedroom. I smelled smoke. I came outside, I just looked through to see if something was happening,” neighbor Michelle Elliott-Smith said.
Residents watched from across the street in the freezing cold, some wrapped in blankets while others wrapped their arms around pets they were able save from the blaze.