{"id":155093,"date":"2026-03-06T08:18:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155093\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:18:37","slug":"laconia-commercial-fire-damages-several-small-businesses-on-east-gunhill-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155093\/","title":{"rendered":"Laconia: Commercial Fire Damages Several Small Businesses on East Gunhill Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\nBy S\u00cdLE MOLONEY<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO a commercial fire at 1234 East Gunhill Road in the Laconia section of the East Bronx on Friday, March 6, 2026. Video 1 Video by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was one injury reported by the FDNY\/EMS after a\u00a0 4-alarm commercial fire broke out along a commercial block in the Laconia section of the East Bronx on Thursday night, March 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fire department said they received a call at 11.53 p.m. on Thursday for a report of a fire in a store at 1234 East Gunhill Road located between Pearsall Avenue and Throop Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO a commercial fire at 1234 East Gunhill Road in the Laconia section of The Bronx on Friday, March 6, 2026. Video 2 Video by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They said the fire was in the cockloft (typically an uninhabited and often inaccessible void space located between the top-floor ceiling and the roof of a building) of a row of stores on East Gunhill Road.<\/p>\n<p>They said a second alarm was raised at 00.08 a.m. on Friday morning, March 6, a third alarm at 00.16 a.m. and a fourth alarm at 00.24 a.m. They said 74 units, comprising 231 firefighters and EMS personnel responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out on a rainy day and firefighters were seen tackling the blaze both from the roof and from the ground. They appeared to be drilling \/ welding something inside one of the stores at one point based on sounds emanating through the night air.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to a male resident for his reaction. \u201cI hope everyone\u2019s ok; it\u2019s crazy!\u201d Joseph said. Asked if he was a frequent customer at the row of stores, he said, \u201cYeah, I come here sometimes. It\u2019s convenient. It\u2019s unfortunate that this happened.\u201d When we mentioned the scale of the response as the fire units were taking up a few blocks, he said, \u201cYeah, kinda lucky as it\u2019s been raining a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO a commercial fire at 1234 East Gunhill Road in the Laconia section of the East Bronx on Friday, March 6, 2026. Video 3 Video by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p>At 1.31 a.m., we asked another male resident, Tavaun, who was exiting a nearby McDonalds if he usually frequented the impacted stores and he said, \u201cYeah, all the time.\u201d He said he hadn\u2019t seen the fire burning as he\u2019s been inside, adding, \u201cThey\u2019ve been here for over an hour and 30 minutes now, maybe two hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They said one firefighter incurred minor injuries and was transported to an area hospital and the fire marshals have been notified and will determine the cause of the blaze, which the FDNY said was brough under control at 2:23 a.m. More to follow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Photo-1-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-128930 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Photo-1-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\"  \/><\/a>FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO a commercial fire at 1234 East Gunhill Road in the Laconia section of the East Bronx on Friday, March 6, 2026.\u00a0 \u00a0<br \/>Photo by S\u00edle Moloney<\/p>\n<p>The office for Bronx Rises Against Gun\u00a0 Violence (B.R.A.G.) is located a few blocks from where the fire broke out, at the junction of Boston Road and East Gun Hill Road, and the Office of Council Member Kevin Riley (C.D. 12) is located about 6 blocks away by East Gunhill Road and Colden Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, March 2, the councilman had joined other Bronx elected officials, including Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, Congressman George Latimer (NY-16), State Sen. Jamaal Bailey (S.D. 36), and Assemblyman Michael Benedetto (A.D. 82), in issuing a statement following a fire that broke out at Co-op City, saying in part, \u201cWe are monitoring this morning\u2019s two-alarm fire at 100 Asch Loop in Co-op City. Thank you to FDNY, NYPD, first responders, and the Red Cross for supporting residents. Our offices stand ready to assist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdnysmart.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>\u00a0to read FDNY\u2019s fire safety tips. \u201cDuring a fire, always close the door behind you!\u201d fire officials say. \u201cIt helps contain smoke and flames, giving you precious time to escape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; By S\u00cdLE MOLONEY \u00a0 FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND TO a commercial fire at 1234 East Gunhill Road in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-155093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155093","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=155093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}