{"id":202042,"date":"2026-04-18T21:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202042\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:56:13","slug":"crews-battle-large-fire-in-union-city-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/202042\/","title":{"rendered":"Crews battle large fire in Union City, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews are battling a large fire in Union City, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>It broke out just before 4:30 p.m. Saturday near 38th Street and Bergen Turnpike.<\/p>\n<p>Few details have been released at this time, but video shows flames and thick black smoke billowing into the air.<\/p>\n<p>The North Bergen Police Department said Bergen Turnpike and Grand Avenue are closed while firefighters continue to work.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also said the fire is causing power outages in parts of neighboring North Bergen and Weehawken Township, and PSE&amp;G has been notified and will work to restore service as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>There have not been reports of any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with CBS News New York for the latest on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crews are battling a large fire in Union City, New Jersey. It broke out just before 4:30 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,35053],"class_list":{"0":"post-202042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-union-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202042","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=202042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}