{"id":206848,"date":"2026-04-23T02:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206848\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:29:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-man-searches-for-loved-one-after-deadly-belmont-fire-kills-2-displaces-dozens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206848\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Man Searches For Loved One After Deadly Belmont Fire Kills 2 Displaces Dozens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two people are dead and more than 70 residents are without a home after a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/1-dead-in-4-alarm-building-fire-in-belmont\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">massive five-alarm fire tore through a Bronx building Tuesday afternoon,<\/a> officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The flames may be out, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/were-basically-homeless-now-fire-victims-seek-support-and-donations-at-our-lady-mount-carmel-church\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">but the destruction remains. <\/a>For some families, the search for answers is just beginning.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Reinaldo Rosario spent the night replaying video of the fire, fearing the worst for his cousin, who lived inside the building.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cExactly where his apartment was where the biggest flame was flaming,\u201d Rosario said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think he made it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fire broke out just after 1:30 p.m. at 660 East 187th St., quickly growing from a third-alarm to a fifth-alarm blaze, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire officials say heavy flames were already ripping through the first floor when crews arrived. The building\u2019s layout allowed the fire to spread rapidly up stairwells and walls, making it difficult to contain.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">At one point, part of the structure collapsed before firefighters could fully get inside, injuring more than a dozen people.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Thick smoke blanketed the area \u2014 visible as far away as Manhattan \u2014 as residents scrambled to escape. One man was seen lying on the ground, covered in soot.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say two people were killed in the fire. Their identities have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Despite the devastation, Rosario says he later learned his cousin survived.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI came down to the church and found out from my cousin Ariel that he\u2019s doing OK,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Now, like many others displaced, his cousin is left with nothing.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Rosario says he\u2019s heading to see him with clothes and support \u2014 after the fire destroyed everything, including his pet.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead and more than 70 residents are without a home after a massive five-alarm fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-206848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206848","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=206848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}