{"id":226371,"date":"2026-05-10T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226371\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T15:00:33","slug":"news-12-bronx-two-people-found-dead-during-blaze-at-hempstead-house-believed-to-be-vacant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/226371\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Two People Found Dead During Blaze At Hempstead House Believed To Be Vacant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two people have been found dead inside a house that was boarded up and believed to be vacant after a previous fire. <\/p>\n<p>Another fire at the home occurred early Sunday morning. There was a prior fire at the house in Oct. 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The first 911 calls reporting the fire at 45 Sycamore Avenue came in at 1:28 a.m., according to the Nassau County Fire Marshal  \u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Ten fire departments responded, sending 75 firefighters to the scene. Crews were able to bring the blaze under control within two hours.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire officials say the two victims were discovered inside the home amidst firefighting operations, they are believed to squatters who used the abandoned house as a shelter.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The house suffered extensive damage, leading to a partial collapse of the structure.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Village of Hempstead Building Department responded to assess the damage and secure the site.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The catalyst for the fire remains under investigation as does the cause of death for both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been found dead inside a house that was boarded up and believed to be vacant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-226371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226371","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=226371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}