{"id":241045,"date":"2026-05-22T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:40:08","slug":"staten-island-fire-explosion-reports-whats-happening-in-richmond-terrace-details-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241045\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island fire, explosion reports: What&#8217;s happening in Richmond Terrace? Details emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">A major fire on Staten Island, following reports of explosions and heavy smoke coming from Richmond Terrace, provoked an extensive emergency response on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/photo-1682784106024-abd726acba13_1779482787642_1779482799212_eb81bd08-241c-452e-8815-fb60457b33db.jp.jpeg\" alt=\"Emergency crews rushed to Richmond Terrace on Staten Island after a major fire and reported explosions triggered a large-scale FDNY response (Unsplash)\" title=\"Emergency crews rushed to Richmond Terrace on Staten Island after a major fire and reported explosions triggered a large-scale FDNY response (Unsplash)\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>Emergency crews rushed to Richmond Terrace on Staten Island after a major fire and reported explosions triggered a large-scale FDNY response (Unsplash)<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">After reports of an explosion and intense fire at a shipyard building along Richmond Terrace, the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) declared a third alarm and deployed large numbers of firefighters to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">According to local outlet SILive, the fire drew a major response from the FDNY, with numerous fire units, emergency vehicles and police personnel rushing to the scene as smoke became visible across portions of Staten Island.<\/p>\n<p>FDNY declared \u201cAll Hands\u201d code <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened at 3075 Richmond Terrace, where local media and emergency alert accounts first reported an explosion in a confined-space emergency involving shipyard workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Around 3:40 p.m., emergency radio reports reported the fire on Richmond Terrace between Mersereau and Andros avenues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Initial reports from emergency monitoring accounts suggested the incident may have begun with an explosion in a confined-space emergency inside the Mariners Harbor. NYC Fire Wire reported on X that two workers were trapped inside the building. <\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Confined-space emergencies are considered among the most dangerous industrial rescue situations because of risks involving fire, toxic gases, structural collapse and limited access for rescue crews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">The FDNY escalated the response to a third alarm as conditions intensified, bringing additional firefighters, EMS crews and specialized rescue personnel to the waterfront industrial site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major fire on Staten Island, following reports of explosions and heavy smoke coming from Richmond Terrace, provoked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[94203,94206,9,24,63,94204,94205,94202,134,94201,136,135],"class_list":["post-241045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-fdny-emergency-response-richmond-terrace","tag-fdny-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-richmond-terrace","tag-richmond-terrace-explosion","tag-richmond-terrace-fire","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-fire","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241045","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=241045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}