{"id":239575,"date":"2026-05-21T18:36:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239575\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T18:36:47","slug":"explosion-of-flames-bursts-from-mta-vehicle-engulfed-in-fire-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/239575\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion of Flames Bursts From MTA Vehicle Engulfed in Fire in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A vehicle caught fire and burned dramatically in New York\u2019s Financial District on Tuesday, May 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video filmed by Takuya Hirao shows the car becoming quickly engulfed just outside the Bowling Green subway station. Firefighters arrived on the scene and extinguished the flames before the fire spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The MTA &#8211; New York City Transit vehicle was parked in front of a fire hydrant on Broadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire was unknown. Credit: Takuya Hirao via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A vehicle caught fire and burned dramatically in New York\u2019s Financial District on Tuesday, May 19. Video filmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[93216,4246,75,84,83,9,24,63,93637],"class_list":["post-239575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-bowling-green-subway-station","tag-fire-hydrant","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-takuya-hirao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239575","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=239575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}