{"id":111497,"date":"2026-01-24T22:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111497\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:21:12","slug":"fdny-responds-to-fatal-explosion-fire-in-high-rise-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111497\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY Responds to Fatal Explosion, Fire in High-Rise Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire Department of New York (FDNY) crews responded to a four-alarm fire at a high-rise building in the Bronx early Saturday that left at least one person dead, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/fdny-4-alarm-fire-kills-one-injures-more-than-a-dozen-in-bronx-high-rise\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/fdny-4-alarm-fire-kills-one-injures-more-than-a-dozen-in-bronx-high-rise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Gothamist<\/a> reported that more than a dozen people were also injured in the fire at a 17-story NYCHA apartment building, located at 3485 Bivona St.<\/p>\n<p>The initial call reportedly came in as an odor of gas, but then an explosion occurred a few minutes after firefighters arrived on scene. The fire spread through multiple apartments on the 15th, 16th, and 17th floors, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>NY Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/24\/us-news\/fdny-firefighters-battle-4-alarm-blaze-on-top-floors-of-bronx-apartment\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/24\/us-news\/fdny-firefighters-battle-4-alarm-blaze-on-top-floors-of-bronx-apartment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">At least 1 dead in gas explosion that sparked 4-alarm blaze on top floors of NYC apartment building<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED TRAINING<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fire Department of New York (FDNY) crews responded to a four-alarm fire at a high-rise building in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,194,47296,49899,49900,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-111497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-fdny","tag-fire-news","tag-gas-emergencies","tag-high-rises","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111497","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=111497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}