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Three Alarm Fire Destroys Historic Church
June 19, 2026 | NEW YORK
DAVID BURNS, Senior Correspondent

Photo by David Burns/@FD4DScene

Photo by David Burns/@FD4DScene

Photo by David Burns/@FD4DScene
This article is a direct street report from our correspondent and has not been edited by the 1st Responder newsroom.
Brooklyn Box 3-3-0755: A Third alarm Church Fire at Kossuth Place and Bushwick Avenue. Brooklyn Firefighters need a Third Alarm to battle a late afternoon Church fire in the Bushwick Section of Brooklyn. First arriving companies met with a heavy body of fire on the upper floors of the wooden structure. The Church known as the South Bushwick Reformed Church was finished in 1853.