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A fire erupted inside a\u00a0Bronx\u00a0firehouse early Friday,\u00a0trapping a handful of firefighters on the second floor<\/a>,\u00a0FDNY\u00a0officials said.<\/p>\n Members of another fire company in the same firehouse on\u00a0Briggs Ave.\u00a0near\u00a0E. 200th St.\u00a0in\u00a0Bedford Park\u00a0had to rescue the trapped members of Engine 79, who escaped the building from a second-floor window, officials said.<\/p>\n Fourteen firefighters suffered minor injuries, with one taken to\u00a0Jacobi Hospital\u00a0for observation.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had quite the morning,\u201d\u00a0FDNY Fire Commissioner\u00a0Lillian Bonsignore<\/a>\u00a0said outside the firehouse, nicknamed the home of \u201cDa Bronx Bravest.\u201d<\/p>\n The fire erupted on the first floor of the firehouse, which houses\u00a0Engine Company\u00a079,\u00a0Ladder Company\u00a037 and Battalion 27, at about\u00a06 a.m.,\u00a0FDNY\u00a0Chief of Department\u00a0John Esposito\u00a0said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe house watchman in the firehouse became aware of a fire on the first floor and alerted everybody,\u201d Esposito said during a presser outside the firehouse. \u201cThe cause and where it started was under investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n The blaze quickly extended to Engine 79\u2019s firetruck and spread to the first-floor staircase, trapping firefighters upstairs.<\/p>\n \u201c(They) could not get out through the stairway, so they did exactly what we ask everyone to do and sheltered in the front room and closed the door behind them,\u201d Bonsignore said. \u201cThat bought them time for another unit to come and help evacuate from the building.\u201d<\/p>\n Members of\u00a0Ladder Company\u00a056, who are located about a mile away, were called in and used ladders to pull firefighters from the second floor window, Esposito said.<\/p>\n It was not immediately clear how many firefighters were trapped on the second floor when the blaze began.<\/p>\n The three-alarm fire was put out within an hour and a half. More than 160 firefighters and EMS members were called in to put out the flames and lend medical assistance.<\/p>\n Both Engine 79\u2019s firetruck and the building suffered damage, Esposito said.<\/p>\n Esposito and Bonsignore said the department was now in the process of moving the firefighters of Engine 79 to other firehouses until the building damage can be assessed and repaired.<\/p>\n Other nearby firehouses will be covering the area that Engine 79 protected, Bonsignore said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to make sure we have appropriate fire protection for this neighborhood while the firehouse is repaired,\u201d Bonsignore said.<\/p>\n FDNY\u00a0Fire Marshals<\/a>\u00a0have been tasked with trying to determine what started 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 fire erupted inside a\u00a0Bronx\u00a0firehouse early Friday,\u00a0trapping a handful of firefighters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-177220","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\/177220","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=177220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}