{"id":139965,"date":"2026-02-20T13:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139965\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:58:15","slug":"staten-island-railway-delays-track-fire-extinguished-near-grasmere-train-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/139965\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island Railway delays: Track fire extinguished near Grasmere train station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QN3FB3ARB5EC3ACIOSPA5SCBDE\">Update: Delays continue, but the fire has been extinguished, according to a post from the MTA at 8:32 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UBJFYDAC6ZE6LGAHID2L5SFFXQ\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A track fire was extinguished in Grasmere but delays continue on the Staten Island Railway during the Friday morning rush hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BAKUTDFJNRFPJOSC4KS3DHMFXM\">Trains heading to St. George are running behind schedule, according to an alert from the MTA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LBKWZ5MIRBF6VNJTGANREGWIBI\">The incident was called at 8:09 a.m. in the vicinity of the Grasmere train station on Clove Road between Hillcrest Terrace and Giles Place, according to a spokesperson for the FDNY and EMS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ECZRQTVDZ5HLTGNITKA2Y7UOCM\">No injuries were reported and the fire was brought under control in less than a half-hour, at 8:27 a.m., the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Update: Delays continue, but the fire has been extinguished, according to a post from the MTA at 8:32&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,45933,59096,134,136,135,19147],"class_list":{"0":"post-139965","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-railroad","12":"tag-railroad-train","13":"tag-staten-island","14":"tag-staten-island-headlines","15":"tag-staten-island-news","16":"tag-trains"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139965","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=139965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}