{"id":238255,"date":"2026-05-20T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238255\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:44:10","slug":"fiery-car-explosion-in-lower-manhattan-shocks-people-on-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238255\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiery car explosion in Lower Manhattan shocks people on the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">A terrifying scene unfolded in Lower Manhattan after a vehicle suddenly exploded and burst into flames in the middle of the street.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Videos captured thick smoke, intense fire and nearby pedestrians reacting in panic as the explosion quickly drew attention from people across the area.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The shocking footage immediately spread online while emergency crews responded to the scene and investigators worked to determine exactly what caused the explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A terrifying scene unfolded in Lower Manhattan after a vehicle suddenly exploded and burst into flames in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-238255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238255","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=238255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}