{"id":116484,"date":"2026-01-29T17:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116484\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:52:21","slug":"a-parked-van-went-up-in-flames-on-manhattan-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116484\/","title":{"rendered":"A Parked Van Went Up in Flames on Manhattan Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parked white van caught on fire in the early hours of January 28.<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY received a call at 1:42 am for a car fire in front of God Bless USA Deli (818 Manhattan Avenue).<\/p>\n<p>According to a reader who sent in photos, it was quite the inferno. Thankfully, no one was injured. The FDNY suspects it was a transformer fire.<\/p>\n<p>The van\u2019s charred remained on scene yesterday but have since been removed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"1040\" data-attachment-id=\"157304\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/greenpointers.com\/2026\/01\/29\/a-parked-van-went-up-in-flames-on-manhattan-avenue\/image3-2-13\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenpointers.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image3-2-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1920,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"van fire manhattan avenue 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo: Jonathan Gillett&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenpointers.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image3-2-scaled.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/greenpointers.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image3-2-scaled.jpg?fit=500%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image3-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-157304\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/>Photo: Jonathan Gillet<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A parked white van caught on fire in the early hours of January 28. The FDNY received a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[194,1418,545,51517,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-116484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-fdny","tag-featured-article","tag-fire","tag-god-bless-usa-deli","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116484","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=116484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}