{"id":205070,"date":"2026-04-21T19:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205070\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:27:08","slug":"bronx-apartment-fire-leaves-1-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205070\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx apartment fire leaves 1 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/screenshot-2026-04-21-150107.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">BRONX &#8211; A deadly multi-alarm fire tore through a residential building in the Belmont section of the Bronx on Tuesday afternoon, prompting a massive response from the FNDY and leaving one civilian dead.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to the FDNY, the fire was reported at 2:48 p.m. at 660 East 187th Street, between Belmont Avenue and Cambreleng Avenue. The blaze broke out in a five-story dwelling and quickly spread across multiple floors.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The FDNY confirmed that the incident escalated to a fourth-alarm response, bringing 74 units and 231 fire and EMS personnel to the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Officials reported that one civilian was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Crews remain on-site working to bring the fire under control and investigate its cause.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">No additional details about the victim have been released at this time.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Authorities are urging residents to avoid the area as emergency operations continue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the FDNY.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/bronx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article BRONX &#8211; A deadly multi-alarm fire tore through a residential building in the Belmont section of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[128,850,9,11,10,12,56,63,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-205070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205070","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=205070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}