{"id":166748,"date":"2026-03-17T22:55:59","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166748\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:55:59","slug":"fire-erupts-in-manhattan-on-st-patricks-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166748\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire erupts in Manhattan on St. Patrick’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n <\/p>\n

A fire broke out<\/a> in Manhattan on Tuesday, which is St. Patrick’s Day.<\/p>\n

FDNY indicated that a call came in for a fire on the roof at 6 E43rd street, Fox News has learned.<\/p>\n

FDNY shared footage of the smoke billiowing into the air in a post<\/a> on X, noting, “The FDNY is operating at a fire on East 43rd Street in Manhattan.”<\/p>\n

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Smoke billows from a rooftop fire in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. (WNYW)<\/p>\n

FDNY also reposted a post<\/a> by the X account for the city’s official emergency notification system which stated, “@FDNY Activity: Expect traffic delays, road closures, mass transit disruptions, & emergency personnel near East 43rd Street & Madison Avenue, Manhattan. Use alternate routes.”<\/p>\n

Kevin Gordon, head of macro research and strategy, Schwab Center for Financial Research, posted a photo<\/a> of thick smoke on X, and commented, “Quite the scene this morning on 43rd street in midtown Manhattan \u2026 really hope everyone is alright.”<\/p>\n

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Smoke billows from a rooftop fire in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, near the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (Fox News)<\/p>\n

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Seth Andrews contributed to this report<\/p>\n

Alex Nitzberg is a writer for Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A fire broke out in Manhattan on Tuesday, which is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[544,75,84,83,9,24,63,618],"class_list":["post-166748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-fires","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166748","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=166748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}