{"id":205152,"date":"2026-04-21T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205152\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:22:23","slug":"nj-fire-in-ridgefield-park-spews-smoke-over-nyc-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205152\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ fire in Ridgefield Park spews smoke over NYC \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple homes were damaged when a fast-moving fire tore through a New Jersey community overnight, generating smoke so billowy that New York City&#8217;s Office of Emergency Management posted an alert about it.<\/p>\n<p>One home appeared to be totally destroyed after the fire broke out around 3:15 a.m. on Brinkerhoff Street in Ridgefield Park. Two nearby sustained major fire damage, as well as smoke and water damage.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor said everyone in the three homes affected got out safely.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 fire personnel responded. One was taken to a hospital with minor injuries. <\/p>\n<p>A fire official at the scene says access to water hampered the firefighting effort.<\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Due to emergency personnel operating at a four alarm fire in Ridgefield Park, NJ, residents in Manhattan may see or smell smoke. Multilingual &amp; ASL Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fCMmaLTzmK\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/fCMmaLTzmK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NYCEM &#8211; Notify NYC (@NotifyNYC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NotifyNYC\/status\/2046508418056278495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple homes were damaged when a fast-moving fire tore through a New Jersey community overnight, generating smoke so&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1066,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-205152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-jersey","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-staten-island","13":"tag-staten-island-headlines","14":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205152","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=205152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}