{"id":166421,"date":"2026-03-17T17:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166421\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:55:37","slug":"flames-leap-from-manhattan-high-rise-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166421\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames Leap From Manhattan High-Rise Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A large fire broke out on the upper levels of a high-rise office building in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday morning, March 17, prompting a large response from the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/2033910556139135130\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York City Fire Department;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York City Fire Department&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York City Fire Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The blaze broke out at 6 East 43rd Street, a 28-story building located a block from where the St Patrick\u2019s Day Parade was scheduled to begin at 11 am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This footage shows flames and smoke on the roof of the building and firefighters responding.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/midtown-apartment-fire-sends-smoke-air-manhattan-nyc\/18724755\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ABC7NY;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;ABC7NY&quot;}\" class=\"link \">ABC7NY<\/a>, the building is being renovated to convert offices into residential units, and the blaze broke out in an HVAC system on the roof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire was under control in less than an hour and did not impact the parade, they reported. Credit: @JohnSmithrx3e via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A large fire broke out on the upper levels of a high-rise office building in Midtown Manhattan on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,3412,9,24,37283,63,54465,68276],"class_list":["post-166421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-midtown-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-fire-department","tag-nyc","tag-office-building","tag-upper-levels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166421","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=166421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}