{"id":140705,"date":"2026-02-21T02:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140705\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T02:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T02:29:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-firefighters-battle-car-manhole-fire-in-cypress-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/140705\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Firefighters battle car &#038; manhole fire in Cypress Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The FDNY says a car and a manhole caught fire in Cypress Hills.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to 57 Shepherd Ave. just after 12:45 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The gray Acura SUV and a manhole nearby were seen ablaze. The Acura was left charred, with a shattered windshield.<\/p>\n<p>Sparks and flames shot from a wooden pole above the Acura, surrounded by thick smoke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife called me. I imagined the house burning, and I felt my heartbeat was gonna kind of explode. I was so scared I just ran,\u201d said Alex Valencia, who owns a house nearby.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was contained just over two hours later and no one was injured, the FDNY says.<\/p>\n<p>Con Edison crews were on scene, seemingly making repairs.<\/p>\n<p>News 12 reached out to Con Ed and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FDNY says a car and a manhole caught fire in Cypress Hills. Firefighters responded to 57 Shepherd&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,11204,1168,16977,194,35905,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-140705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-car-fire","12":"tag-con-edison","13":"tag-cypress-hills","14":"tag-fdny","15":"tag-manhole","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140705","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=140705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}