Borough Park Fire: Victims Of Early-Morning Blaze Identified

BOROUGH PARK, BROOKLYN — A fire tore through a Brooklyn home early Monday morning, leaving a man and woman dead, and a teenage girl and four firefighters injured, officials said.

A family — a 61 year-old man, a 59-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl — was trapped inside the house at 1174 44th St. when a fire erupted around 3:50 a.m. Monday morning, said police and the FDNY.

Emergency responders rushed the victims to Maimonides Hospital where the man and woman were pronounced dead and the girl was listed in stable condition, police said.

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It took 140 firefighters — four of whom were injured — to extinguish the blaze by 5:55 a.m , said the FDNY.

The cause of the fire remains unknown. The dead were identified as Howard and Evelyn Gluck, who lived inside the home.

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