A fire division lieutenant has died after responding to a large blaze in a Brooklyn apartment building final night. The lieutenant, John Martinson, 40, of Engine 249, was among at least 100 firefighters who responded to the fire in a 25-story apartment building in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens section of Brooklyn. The fire began on the 14th floor of a building at 1700 Bedford Ave. just after 7 p.m., and the fire area announced Martinson’s death

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