{"id":212050,"date":"2026-04-28T01:02:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212050\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:02:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:02:46","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-sources-fire-marshal-arrested-after-accidentally-shooting-himself-with-illegal-gun-at-fdny-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212050\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Sources Fire Marshal Arrested After Accidentally Shooting Himself With Illegal Gun At Fdny Headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An FDNY Fire Marshal was arrested after he accidentally shot himself in the foot with an illegal gun at the FDNY Headquarters Monday morning, police sources say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">James Beringer, 52, was on duty inside 9 Metrotech Center in Downtown Brooklyn at the time of the incident, around 7:45 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sources tell News 12 that Beringer accidentally discharged the weapon, and no one else was hurt.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">EMS took Beringer to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to New York City law, FDNY Fire Marshals serve as sworn police officers and carry firearm(s).<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It is unclear what led Beringer to be in possession of an illegal gun.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He is charged with criminal possession of a weapon and failure to register a weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY says the matter is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An FDNY Fire Marshal was arrested after he accidentally shot himself in the foot with an illegal gun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-212050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212050","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=212050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}