BUSHWICK — A fire broke out on the first floor of an apartment across from Maria Hernandez Park Monday morning, sending smoke up the three-story apartment building and displacing a family with a baby.
About 60 firefighters responded to battle the flames at 306 Suydam St. just after 10 a.m. Monday, according to FDNY. The blaze was contained on the first floor.
No one was injured, the fire department said.
But "hoards of smoke" were billowing from the second floor of the property, said a woman who identified herself as "Mother Pigeon," a local who lives behind the Suydam Street house.
She saw a man climb down the back fire escape from the second floor with his cat as smoke came out of the building, she said.
"[Smoke] was pouring out," she said. "Fast, really quickly."
Resident Neyda Morales, 21, lives next door to the building and realized there was a fire when she saw smoke coming in from under her bedroom door, she said.
She ran out of her apartment and saw her next door neighbor, a man who lives with his wife and baby on the first floor, she said.
He was covered with smoke and ash, she said.
"Everything was filled with smoke," she said.
By 10:30 a.m., most of the smoke had gone away, and firefighters were tossing charred pieces of furniture out of the front window of the ground floor.
The building, which has six units total, was renovated in 2014 by owner Marni Bell, according to Department of Building records.
