Brooklyn apartment fire takes lives of four newborn puppies; resident suspects scooter battery sparked blaze

Key Facts

• Four newborn puppies died Friday afternoon when a fire possibly caused by a lithium-ion battery tore through an apartment in a six-story Brooklyn building, residents and the FDNY said.
• Gabriel Jodah, who lived inside the apartment where the fire broke out, was grateful he made it out alive — but was heartbroken to learn his family’s four newborn puppies perished.
• None of the people in the building were reported injured, the Fire Department said.
• Inside the fourth-floor apartment at 340 George Ave. in Brooklyn where a blaze a resident suspects was caused by a lithium-ion battery killed four puppies.

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