Two men were killed in a raging Brooklyn apartment building fire Sunday evening, according to authorities.
Flames ripped through part of the four-story building at 159 Bay 29 Street around 6:45 p.m. — prompting 60 firefighters and first responders to rush to the scene, the FDNY said.
Smoke-eaters got the blaze under control in about an hour, the department said.
Two unidentified men were found unresponsive on the second floor of the Bath Beach neighborhood building and pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
More information about the two victims was not immediately available early Monday. The city’s medical examiner’s office will determine their causes of death, according to police.
Two firefighters also suffered minor injuries from the blaze, the FDNY said.
Other residents of the apartment building were displaced following the fire.
As they rushed to safety, neighbors saw a man on fire and screaming, according to CBS 2.
“There was a guy on fire … people walking downstairs … the door was open, guy was on fire. They couldn’t help him,” witness Pasquale M. told the station.
Another neighbor told CBS 2 the second-floor unit at the center of Sunday’s fire has led to calls for help before.
“I’ve been living here for two years, so we’ve had like three or four incidents with them when they would get drunk, fall asleep and have something on the stove, which would be turned on and over time start burning and the fire department would come put it out,” said the neighbor, who did not want to be identified.
The fire marshals will determine what caused the deadly inferno as the investigation into the blaze is ongoing.
