NEW YORK -- Seventeen people, including a firefighter, where hurt after a home in Brooklyn went up in flames early Sunday. Three people were hospitalized in critical condition. All three floors of the brownstone on Albany Avenue in Crown Heights were completely charred.The FDNY got the call at around 4:30 a.m. and saw heavy smoke and flames pouring out of every floor when they arrived.
'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. At the same time while we're trying to extinguish the fire, they're conducting searches on the floor with the heavy fire and above that,' an FDNY official at the scene said. Six of the 17 injured people were living in the brownstone where the fire started.
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