{"id":167767,"date":"2026-03-18T22:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167767\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T22:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T22:27:39","slug":"7-hospitalized-after-severe-bronx-carbon-monoxide-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/167767\/","title":{"rendered":"7 hospitalized after severe Bronx carbon monoxide leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven people were hospitalized, including two with serious injuries, after a faulty oil burner caused a severe carbon monoxide leak in the Bronx on Wednesday, according to Fire Department officials.<\/p>\n<p>The leak sprang inside a Grant Ave. residential building near E. 165th St. in Concourse shortly before noon, an FDNY spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire Department recorded CO readings as high as 480 parts per million, more than 400 ppm above the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/indoor-air-quality-iaq\/carbon-monoxides-impact-indoor-air-quality#:~:text=Exposure%20Limits,-Occupational%20Safety%20and&amp;text=%5BOSHA%20PEL%5D%20The%20current%20Occupational,CFR%20Table%20Z%2D1%5D.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Occupational Safety and Health Administration\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0recommended eight-hour exposure limit of 50 ppm.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed seven people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/jacobi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacobi Hospital<\/a>, including five with non-life-threatening injuries and two in serious condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven people were hospitalized, including two with serious injuries, after a faulty oil burner caused a severe carbon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-167767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","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\/167767","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=167767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}