FIRE KILLS MA & SON
Trash blaze consumes B’klyn apt. of beloved kin, 59 and 36
A FAST-MOVING fire killed a mom and her son after erupting in a trash bag in their Brooklyn apartment early Wednesday, officials said.
Firefighters battling the blaze found Natalie Floyd, 59, dead inside the sixthfloor apartment on E. 22nd St. near Ditmas Ave. in Flatbush around 2:05 a.m., according to authorities.
Medics rushed 36-year-old Isaac Floyd, who suffered severe smoke inhalation, to Kings County Hospital, where he died.
Longtime resident Maxine Murray, 64, said she heard the sirens and the blaring horns of fire trucks at around 2 a.m. She looked out the window, saw the firefighters dragging a hose into the lobby of 529 E. 22nd St., then hurried outside.
Within minutes, firefighters came out with Isaac Floyd.
“They rushed Ike out on a stretcher,” she said. “They were really trying, they were really working on him.”
Isaac Floyd’s girlfriend rushed to the scene and fainted when she saw first responders trying to revive him.
“When she saw his condition, she passed out,” Murray said. “She saw them working on him, and that did it. A little after that, we got the news he didn’t make it.”
Natalie Floyd died in the building, Murray said.
“I think it would’ve killed him, anyway, for him to find out he survived and his mother passed,” she said. “That’s how much he loved her. I’m numb. I’m still in disbelief.”
Neighbors said the family was a fixture in the neighborhood for four decades.
“He was a great person, a great figure in the neighborhood,” Mimose Bercier, 45, said.
“I will never forget the way he would help me out. When I had my surgery and couldn’t walk, he’d come and help. When I’m carrying bags from the supermarket, he would always help me with them.”
Sixty firefighters responded to the fire before it was brought under control at 3:20 a.m., officials said.
FDNY fire marshals were investigating what sparked the deadly blaze.