Barbecue in Morris Heights gone wrong after multiple vehicles lit on fire<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cSo in a panic when we heard the explosion,\u201d Reyes said. \u201cI saw the smoke…he came in, closed the window, got us out and we kept running away from this part.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family safely escaped the building along with their 10-year-old Chihuahua.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was shaking … she was really scared,\u201d Reyes said of the dog. \u201cThank God I was with her when this happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neighbors nearby also reported hearing what sounded like an explosion before seeing smoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I heard an explosion and at first, I thought it was one of those trucks, it was a speedbump,\u201d said Genesis Flores, who lives in the neighborhood. \u201cAnd we saw the smoke, smelled the smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n
People experiencing homelessness in the area said residents in the building were known for helping others in the community.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmazing people there, they take care of us, when we\u2019re hungry, they feed us,\u201d one person said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just hope they weren\u2019t in there and they are fine…that\u2019s all I hope,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n
The fire happened during one of the warmest days of the year.<\/p>\n
Details about the cause of the fire or whether there were any injuries were still not known as of Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in Morris Heights described moments of panic and confusion after a fire tore through a building on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-235189","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\/235189","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=235189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}