{"id":241099,"date":"2026-05-22T22:13:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241099\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:13:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:13:39","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-a-fire-and-shipyard-explosion-on-staten-island-injures-at-least-16-including-3-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241099\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | A Fire And Shipyard Explosion On Staten Island Injures At Least 16 Including 3 Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A fire and explosion at a shipyard on New York City\u2019s Staten Island has injured at least 16 people, including three with serious injuries, the New York Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Someone reported two workers trapped in a confined space at the dock at about 3:30 p.m. Friday, and responding firefighters found a fire burning in the basement of a metal structure at the dock, said Joanne Mariano with the fire department\u2019s press office.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Crews were still fighting the fire when a major explosion occurred at the site roughly 50 minutes later, she said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fire was still burning and emergency workers had counted 16 people on site with injuries by 5 p.m., Mariano said, including two firefighters and one civilian with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It wasn\u2019t yet clear if anyone had died in the fire and explosion. The cause is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire and explosion at a shipyard on New York City\u2019s Staten Island has injured at least 16&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-241099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241099","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=241099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}