{"id":195049,"date":"2026-04-13T06:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195049\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T06:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T06:46:16","slug":"fire-rips-through-empty-building-in-chelsea-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195049\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire rips through empty building in Chelsea \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive fire ripped through a building in Chelsea early this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The fire at 216 Seventh Ave. burned on the first, fifth and sixth floors, according to the New York City Fire Department. &#8221;  Firefighters \u201coperated from tower ladders to knock down the fire and conduct searches from the exterior due to unsafe interior conditions,&#8221; said Deputy Chief Anthony Arpaia.<\/p>\n<p>The fire forced the closure of Seventh Ave. between 22nd and 23rd Streets Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Camelia Entekhabifard told NBC New York that she felt or heard what resembled an explosion.  &#8220;It can be because the window shattered, or something major exploded inside.  I&#8217;m not saying it was an explosion.<br \/>But you had the loud bang,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Four firefighters suffered minor injuries and were taken to hospitals. No one was inside the building. Neighbors tell News 4 that the building has sat vacant for about a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the 3-alarm fire was still under investigation Sunday evening, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive fire ripped through a building in Chelsea early this morning. The fire at 216 Seventh Ave.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[194,9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-195049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-fdny","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195049","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=195049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}