A manhole fire turned destructive as it spread to a nearby welding and metal shop on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Firefighters responded to a call of a fire at 1661 Boone Ave. at around 2:19 p.m. <\/p>\n
It took 79 firefighters and EMS personnel to contain the flames almost an hour later. <\/p>\n
One firefighter was treated for minor injuries. <\/p>\n
Niko, the owner of Lindi Construction, says he was trying to assess the damages from the manhole fire spreading into this business. <\/p>\n
“The main damage is our downstairs, but I haven’t been able to go inside because they don’t allow us to go inside downstairs. Upstairs, they got the roof. They damaged some areas,” he said. <\/p>\n
Niko said he was notified of the issue by two employees who were inside the shop when they heard a loud noise that sounded like an explosion and saw the smoke. <\/p>\n
At the scene, Con Edison appeared to be working on the site of where the manhole fire happened and told News 12 that no power outages were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A manhole fire turned destructive as it spread to a nearby welding and metal shop on Tuesday. Firefighters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9949,14919,545,544,35905,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-122071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crotona-park","tag-crotona-park-east","tag-fire","tag-fires","tag-manhole","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\/122071","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=122071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}