The fires on Bedford Avenue in Midwood, which broke out around 2:30 a.m., were among several reported across New York City and which firefighters scrambled to extinguish.
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Video from the Citizen App showed firefighters putting water on one of the fires, which failed to bring the blaze under control.
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Power to the buildings -- one an apartment building, one a private house -- is not expected to be restored until late Monday afternoon.
The utility believes the fires were weather related, with melting snow carrying salt underground.
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Roughly 900 customers were without power at the height of the outages.
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