{"id":196724,"date":"2026-04-14T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196724\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T12:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:25:40","slug":"monday-afternoon-fire-in-manhattan-ruled-arson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/196724\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday afternoon fire in Manhattan ruled arson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Monday afternoon fire in Manhattan that caused substantial damage is being investigated as arson, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The blaze was reported at 4:04 p.m. Monday at a three-story, 23-unit condominium at 815 Moro St. in Manhattan. The building was occupied at the time of the fire, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Upon arrival, crews found six air-conditioning units on fire. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A Monday afternoon fire at a Manhattan condominium building was ruled an arson, officials said.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PRQHR7EDIBBBTHF2VSCNQN4I6Y.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"526\" \/>A Monday afternoon fire at a Manhattan condominium building was ruled an arson, officials said.(Becky Goff)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The fire was contained within five minutes as crews made a quick response and knockdown. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The total estimated loss was listed at $70,000 for the air-conditioning units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Manhattan Fire Department officials said the cause of the blaze was intentional, and Riley County Police Department filed an aggravated arson report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There were no immediate reports of arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Check <a href=\"https:\/\/wibw.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/wibw.com\" target=\"_blank\">wibw.com<\/a> later for more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A total of 16 firefighters responded on sox fire apparatus, with the last units clearing before 5 p.m. Mondahy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A Monday afternoon fire in Manhattan that caused substantial damage is being investigated as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3094,7290,545,75,84,83,31223,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-196724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-arson","9":"tag-condominium","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-manhattan-headlines","13":"tag-manhattan-news","14":"tag-moro-street","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196724","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=196724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}