{"id":194554,"date":"2026-04-12T17:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194554\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T17:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T17:37:37","slug":"empty-building-in-chelsea-caught-fire-fdny-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194554\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty building in Chelsea caught fire, FDNY says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"vnafl\">Firefighters rushed to extinguish an empty apartment building in Manhattan that caught on fire on Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"35pns\">FDNY said it received calls of a fire that reached multiple floors of the building at the corner of 22nd Street and Seventh Ave, in Chelsea, shortly after 6 a.m. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"bntl3\">FDNY officials said that the building was empty but that two firefighters were sent to hospitals after minor injuries from helping extinguish the fire. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a4e3n\">Nearly 200 firefighter personnel were on the scene for the three-alarm fire, according to the FDNY <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9dh3v\">The cause of the fire is still under investigation. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a3706\">Sen. Erik Bottcher, who represents Manhattan\u2019s West Side, said the building itself had a \u201clong and frustrating history.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2dd83\">\u201cIt\u2019s a real shame. This is an old and architecturally interesting building, and I strongly hope it can be saved,\u201d Bottcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXCKrlAKs5y\/?igsh=MTFndmRqY2IxY3Z4bA==\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a social media post. <\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dderr\">This is a developing story and may be updated. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters rushed to extinguish an empty apartment building in Manhattan that caught on fire on Sunday morning. FDNY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-194554","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194554","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=194554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}