{"id":193358,"date":"2026-04-11T13:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193358\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:38:26","slug":"massive-nyc-apartment-building-fire-possibly-sparked-by-candles-in-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193358\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive NYC apartment building fire possibly sparked by candles in apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive fire that lit up a Bronx building Saturday morning may have been caused by candles that filled one tenant\u2019s apartment, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started on Leland Avenue around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, engulfing the upper floors of a three-story building, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Tenants in the building told LoudLabs that a woman on the second floor was known to fill her home with candles, and may have been mentally ill.<\/p>\n<p>One tenant was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after neighbors banged on doors to make sure everyone fled the inferno in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive fire that lit up a Bronx building Saturday morning may have been caused by candles that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,544,57,9,24,63,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-193358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-fires","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-the-bronx","15":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","16":"tag-the-bronx-news","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193358","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=193358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}