A two-alarm fire at a Bushwick apartment building displaced 11 people early on Monday morning. Brooklyn dispatchers began receiving calls about a fire at 987 Hancock St. shortly after midnight on Oct. 5, per the FDNY. Flames quickly spread to all four floors and the cockloft of the four-story building as well as two adjoining.
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A two-alarm fire at a Bushwick apartment building displaced 11 people early on Monday morning. Brooklyn dispatchers began receiving calls about a fire at 987 Hancock St. shortly after midnight on Oct. 5, per the FDNY. Flames quickly spread to all four floors and the cockloft of the four-story building as well as two adjoining.
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