RED HOOK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Firefighters continue to put out hotspots nearly 24 hours after a massive fire ripped through a large warehouse used by artists in Brooklyn.

Police say the five-alarm fire first broke out inside the warehouse on Van Brunt Street in Red Hook around 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday.

Drone video released by the FDNY showed the scope of the overnight warehouse fire, which started right next door to the third-floor woodworking studio where artist Christopher Bailey has been making custom furniture for more than 20 years.

"I walked here and then I saw what was happening. And it was very clear that it was one very hot spot that was burning," Bailey said.

The building, built in 1870 and constructed mostly of heavy timber, fueling the massive inferno.

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