Sixteen people, including six firefighters and at least two children, were injured in an early morning fire at a Brooklyn apartment building, the FDNY said. The fire started just after 6 a.m. in a seven-story building at 65 Bay 19th Street in the Bath Beach area,

Flames shot out of a second-floor apartment shortly after 6 am on Wednesday in Bath Beach, Brooklyn. “I was asleep. I didn’t know what happened. I woke up. The fire department was breaking the door and the window.

At least 16 people were hurt in an early morning fire in Brooklyn, and smoke-filled hallways made it hard to breathe, forcing residents to escape through windows or off fire escapes.A 42-year-old man and two children -- boys ages 5 and 5 months -- were critically injured after being overcome by smoke in an attempt to escape the building.

Firefighters pulled a man out of the fire, and he had burns throughout his body, and a laceration to his neck.