article_snippet: The father Gabi Sassoon was at a religious retreat in Manhattan when Fire ripped through The father Gabi Sassoon .
article_snippet: Authorities have been unable to reach The father Gabi Sassoon to tell The father Gabi Sassoon about fire as The father Gabi Sassoon is out of the city at a conference .
article_snippet: Firefighters received a call at 12:23am about the blaze at a single-family home in Midwood, a section of Brooklyn known for 12:23am low crime and large Orthodox Jewish population.
article_snippet: New York Fire Department Commissioner Daniel Nigro then added; 'There was no evidence of smoke detectors on either the first or the second floor that may have alerted this family to caught fire.'
article_snippet: A smoke detector was found in the home's basement.
article_snippet: caught fire tore through the home in Brooklyn, New York a little after midnight early Saturday morning .
article_snippet: Damage can be seen along an upper floor on the back of the house .
article_snippet: Firefighters forced Firefighters way in, extinguished fire on the first floor, which had started in the kitchen, then pushed upstairs and found the children in the children bedrooms,' said Nigro. '
article_snippet: Debris is scattered behind the house at the scene of a fire .
article_snippet: a woman was covered in soot.
highlights_snippet: A fire tore through a home in Brooklyn, New York a little after midnight early Saturday morning .
  