New York Daily News<\/p>\n
(TNS)<\/p>\n
A man was killed as\u00a0a massive fire tore through his\u00a0Bronx\u00a0apartment building<\/a>\u00a0early Thursday,\u00a0FDNY\u00a0officials said.<\/p>\n The blaze broke out about\u00a05:30 a.m.\u00a0in a top-floor apartment of the\u00a0E. 184th St.\u00a0building near\u00a0Bassford Ave.\u00a0in\u00a0Belmont, officials said.<\/p>\n Video shows\u00a0massive flames<\/a>\u00a0shooting out of the top windows and roof top.<\/p>\n FDNY\u00a0Chief of Operations\u00a0Kevin Woods\u00a0said firefighters arrived within four minutes and were met by \u201cheavy fire on the top floor extending into the cockloft and through the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n The cockloft is the space between the top floor\u2019s ceiling and the roofline.<\/p>\n Firefighters stretched five hoses up the stairs to douse the flames, bringing the fire under control within three hours.<\/p>\n The fire was so intense that the roof collapsed into the top floor, Woods said. The ornate cornice on the top of the building also collapsed.<\/p>\n Before it was snuffed out, the fire reached five alarms, bringing 280 firefighters and EMS members to the scene.<\/p>\n Four firefighters suffered minor injuries ranging from sprains to heat exhaustion and were taken to area hospitals, Woods said.<\/p>\n A resident in the apartment where the fire broke out was found dead but he has not been immediately identified.<\/p>\n FDNY\u00a0fire marshals<\/a>\u00a0have been tasked with determining what sparked the fire.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 New York Daily News. Visit\u00a0nydailynews.com<\/a>. Distributed by\u00a0Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thomas Tracy New York Daily News (TNS) A man was killed as\u00a0a massive fire tore through his\u00a0Bronx\u00a0apartment building\u00a0early…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-176206","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\/176206","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=176206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}