\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAn explosion and fire at a Staten Island shipyard injured at least 16 people Friday afternoon, according to officials.The New York City Fire Department responded to a report of workers trapped at the shipyard at around 3:30 p.m., ABC7 reported. There was also reportedly a corresponding fire in the basement of a metal structure in the back of the shipping docks.The explosion happened at 4:20 p.m.Of the 16 injured, one civilian and two firefighters suffered serious injuries.The cause of the fire and the explosion is unknown at this point.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
An explosion and fire at a Staten Island shipyard injured at least 16 people Friday afternoon, according to officials.<\/p>\n
The New York City Fire Department responded to a report of workers trapped at the shipyard at around 3:30 p.m., ABC7 reported. There was also reportedly a corresponding fire in the basement of a metal structure in the back of the shipping docks.<\/p>\n
The explosion happened at 4:20 p.m.<\/p>\n
Of the 16 injured, one civilian and two firefighters suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire and the explosion is unknown at this point.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion and fire at a Staten Island shipyard injured at least 16 people Friday afternoon, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[66720,16132,15332,30221,18624,194,545,7438,18153,94241,9,24,55,54,56,22805,94242,253,51933,94240,94238,134,94239,19109],"class_list":["post-241133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-abc7","tag-back","tag-basement","tag-cause","tag-explosion","tag-fdny","tag-fire","tag-firefighter","tag-mcnd","tag-metal-structure","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-p-m","tag-people-friday-afternoon","tag-report","tag-serious-injury","tag-shipping-dock","tag-shipyard","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-shipyard","tag-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241133","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=241133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}