{"id":147014,"date":"2026-02-27T04:22:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147014\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T04:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:22:31","slug":"2-kids-woman-hospitalized-with-burns-after-multiple-manhole-covers-explode-in-nyc-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147014\/","title":{"rendered":"2 kids, woman hospitalized with burns after multiple manhole covers explode in NYC: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two young children and a woman suffered burns after multiple manhole covers exploded in lower Manhattan Thursday afternoon, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden blast occurred just before 4 p.m. at the intersection of Warren and Church Streets in Tribeca, injuring a 2-year-old girl, a 4-year-old boy, and a 57-year-old woman, according to police and sources.<\/p>\n<p>The three victims sustained minor burns, with the youngsters singed in the face and upper chest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38618336\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/122301000.jpg\" alt=\"Two young children and a woman suffered burns after multiple cast-iron manhole covers exploded in Lower Manhattan Thursday afternoon, cops and sources said.\" class=\"wp-image-38618336\"  \/>The sudden blast occurred just before 4 p.m. at the intersection of Warren and Church Streets in Tribeca. Jeffrey Greenberg\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>They were each taken to New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan Hospital in stable condition, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:2.32727273;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38618368\" width=\"1024\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2-kids-woman-suffer-burns-122300647.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a snowy street with emergency vehicles and workers following a manhole explosion.\" class=\"wp-image-38618368\"  \/>The three victims sustained minor burns, with the youngsters singed in the face and upper chest.\u00a0 Eyewitness News ABC7NY<\/p>\n<p>As many as three cast-iron manhole covers erupted in the area during the incident, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what sparked the explosion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two young children and a woman suffered burns after multiple manhole covers exploded in lower Manhattan Thursday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3531,544,75,84,83,57,9,24,63,103,6071,58],"class_list":["post-147014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-explosions","tag-fires","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-tribeca","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147014","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=147014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}