Firefighter Dies in Brooklyn Warehouse Fire The firefighter, whose name was not immediately released, went into cardiac arrest at the fire, inside a warehouse at 930 Flushing Avenue in Bushwick, and was pronounced dead at Woodhull Medical Center at 3:32 p.m., the authorities said. Another firefighter was seriously injured in the blaze, and four other firefighters received minor injuries. No details about their injuries were immediately available. Jose Rueda, 56, of Bushwick, was down the street, when the fire started. "I saw a lot of flames and I saw a lot of ambulances," he said. Mr. Rueda said he saw one of the firefighters being taken away in an ambulance. "He was not moving," he said. Paramedics were frantically talking into 2-way radios outside the sprawling three-story brown building. "There was just a lot of smoke," Mr. Rueda said. The firefighter who died was believed to be the first firefighter to die in the line of duty since January 2008, when a fire lieutenant died fighting a fire in a high-rise in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Monday's fire began around 1 p.m. and was brought under control shortly before 4 p.m., a spokesman for the Fire Department said. Its cause remained unclear, but the spokesman said substantial "debris" inside was helping fuel the fire. The fire was mostly contained to the second floor of the building. The building was constructed in 1987, according to city records, and serves as the hub for the New York City operations of American Medical Response, a private ambulance service. The city's Emergency Management Office also uses the building to store equipment, including vehicles, said a spokesman for the office, Christopher Gilbride. All together, five firefighters were taken to Woodhull Medical Center and the sixth was taken to Kings County Hospital Center.