At least 6 dead in Brooklyn fire; lithium-ion battery investigated

News this morning in Brooklyn, at least six people are dead after a fire engulfed a home in Sunset Park. Officials this morning saying a lithium-ion battery was found on the scene. Let's get right to Good Day's Jessica Formoso with what we're learning so far, Jessica. Good morning, Dan and Rosanna. So we now know that three homes were affected by this fire. One of the homes where the fire started completely destroyed. A second one that you see behind me there partially destroyed. Mostly the second floor there is where most of the damage is. And then a third one, it has a sign that says vacate, the building department vacating that home. We do know that there is some damage, minor, but there is damage to that third home. At least six people are dead in here at the scene. It's still a very active scene. We have the medical examiner on the scene as well as a number of firefighters still here. The buildings department and the hazmat team was requested because of the presence of lithium ion batteries. Now, let's go to that video that shows the flames engulfing the home. According to the FDNY, the call came in just after. 1 30 this morning for a fire here on 58th street between 6th and 7th avenues. The two-alarm fire quickly became a three-alarm. Two homes engulfed in flames and a third also damaged according to fire officials here on scene. At least six people have died. Four were pronounced on scene. Two died at the hospital. Two others are in the hospital right now with non-life-threatening injuries and three firefighters also hurt with minor injuries. The fire marshal will be investigating We're investigating the cause of the fire, but we do know We know that the hazmat team did respond because of the presence of lithium-ion batteries, which could be an indication that such batteries may be responsible for this fire. You guys may recall that fire in the Bronx last week at the Patterson Houses. A lithium-ion battery was responsible for that deadly fire that took the lives of four people, three children and a mother. Now, here we did speak with a neighbor who lives... Two doors down, he says that he heard fire, fire, and he ran out. Take a listen. Somebody said fire on the house, so we came out the room. We see the fire start through the door and up and up and up, yeah. And then everyone come here to save the people, yeah. So he tells us that by the time he got out and saw what was going on, he never saw anybody from that house where the fire started come out. He says he did see paramedics bringing out people, even doing CPR on one of the people, but no one came out on their own. We do know that the staircase and the floor of one of these homes did collapse. We know the staircase of the home where the fire started did collapse. So now the question is, Were people trapped on that second floor, unable to come down? Those, of course, are questions we have for the fire department. We are awaiting a press conference in the next, I'm told, in the next 30 minutes or so. We also know that the mayor is on his way here. So once he arrives, I believe that is when the presser will start. But, of course, we will bring you the very latest within the next hour or so. Dan Rosanna, back to both of you.