{"id":105818,"date":"2026-01-20T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105818\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T14:25:07","slug":"staten-island-house-fire-firefighter-injured-in-basement-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/105818\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island house fire: Firefighter injured in basement blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PCEBUKSQ7VB2TFV6RNDLATXGOY\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A firefighter suffered minor injuries while battling a fire at a home in Westerleigh amid bitterly cold temperatures on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CIOKEHV7JNFZVEGBJMAKH52CTE\">The fire was called in at 8 a.m. at 56 Goodwin Ave. between S. Greenleaf Avenue and Westcott Boulevard, according to a spokesperson for the FDNY\/EMS<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UWEXZAF255DT3NQUSMZSKSD5H4\">The fire is thought to have started in the basement of the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EOYYOD3H2RBZDHK6DGLDJQ56RI\">About 21 units and 79 fire and EMS personnel brought the blaze under control in about a half-hour, at 8:36 a.m., according to the spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"F36M33WHMRAFNNGWO2P3QMUJOU\">The injured firefighter was transported to Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NE27E7ZJTRH7LGLJTHXTCRMK4A\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A firefighter suffered minor injuries while battling a fire at a home in Westerleigh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-105818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}