A devastating fire in Bushwick on Thursday destroyed a three-family home and most of the belongings of the 10 people who lived there.

The blaze started on the second floor of the building at 38 Lawton St. around 2:15 p.m. Scott Sweeny, a resident, was at his computer in a room at the front of the house when the power suddenly went out. 

“I was about to get up and check the time when I heard a smoke detector go off,” Sweeny told Bushwick Daily. “It didn’t worry me much, but while I was checking the time…a second detector started beeping.”