{"id":141308,"date":"2026-02-21T22:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141308\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T22:40:08","slug":"fdny-battles-fire-at-home-on-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141308\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY battles fire at home on Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/\" title=\"Navigate to News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a>Updated: Feb. 21, 2026, 5:23 p.m.|Published: Feb. 21, 2026, 5:20 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Fire\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FXXLR2N4OBAIZCHYDIMJLALEQI.jpeg\"  \/>Firefighters battle a blaze at a home on Ainsworth Avenue in Great Kills on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026.(Owen Reiter for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"J5JLVOG7QRGMLN7A2DM2TE76DM\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Firefighters battled a blaze at a home in Great Kills on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3NEQLHG5QJHVZLYQKMIRAWCNOE\">The fire was reported on Ainsworth Avenue near Durant Avenue at around 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"2N2BATAKLVAHZAM35W454DQWRI\">According to FDNY Battalion Chief August Orlando, the fire is believed to have started in the kitchen ceiling and then spread to the attic.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fire\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GMZAHDEYAVBULPGWPA6AMDME7M.jpeg\"  \/>FDNY officials work on the scene of a fire on Ainsworth Avenue in Great Kills on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026.(Owen Reiter for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DUNV2CJ6ZRANBAW2G6Y45JYG2A\">Firefighters quickly brought the blaze under control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CAAMTKYSAZGXDEF5WSLO22NXFI\">This is a breaking news story. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NewsUpdated: Feb. 21, 2026, 5:23 p.m.|Published: Feb. 21, 2026, 5:20 p.m.Firefighters battle a blaze at a home on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-141308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141308","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=141308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}