{"id":146749,"date":"2026-02-26T23:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146749\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T23:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:51:27","slug":"woman-two-kids-suffer-facial-burns-in-manhattan-manhole-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/146749\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, two kids suffer facial burns in Manhattan manhole explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman and two children suffered burns when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/04\/22\/poughkeepsie-manhole-explosion-video-woman-grandkids\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">manhole exploded<\/a> and blew its heavy cast-iron lid off in lower Manhattan on Thursday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, including a 4-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl, were injured in the explosion that originated below Warren and Church Sts. in Tribeca shortly before 4 p.m., according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The woman and kids suffered burns to their faces and shoulders, police said. They were taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/lowermanhattan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NY Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital<\/a> in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>During winter, wet road salt can seep into manholes, corroding electrical cables\u2019 insulation, causing sparks and gas that can then combust under pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman and two children suffered burns when a manhole exploded and blew its heavy cast-iron lid off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-146749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146749","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=146749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}