{"id":241154,"date":"2026-05-22T22:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241154\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:51:08","slug":"breaking-staten-island-shipyard-explosion-leaves-16-people-seriously-injured-including-two-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241154\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING | Staten Island shipyard explosion leaves 16 people seriously injured, including two firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Photo-May-22-2026-4-55-33-PM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Firefighters at scene of Staten Island explosion\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"BREAKING | Staten Island shipyard explosion leaves 16 people seriously injured, including two firefighters 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>An explosion at a Staten Island shipyard on Friday afternoon left at least 16 people, including nine firefighters, seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>An explosion at a <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/staten-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Staten Island<\/a> shipyard on Friday afternoon left at least 16 people, including nine firefighters, seriously injured.\n<\/p>\n<p>Two of the nine FDNY members were said to be in serious condition at a local hospital following the blast, which occurred just after 3:30 p.m. on May 22 at the Richmond Industrial Complex, located at 3075 Richmond Terrace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fire marshals are investigating what sparked the explosion, which happened after firefighters arrived on the scene to battle a reported fire.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/staten-island-fire-least-2-people-rescued-explosion-shipyard\/19152007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ABC7 reported<\/a> that the incident happened in the basement of a metal structure near the docks. At least one worker at the yard is unaccounted for after the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/staten-island-fire-least-2-people-rescued-explosion-shipyard\/19152007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Associated Press<\/a>, more than 200 FDNY personnel are now on the scene. The city\u2019s Emergency Management office advises to avoid traveling to the site as the operation continues.<\/p>\n<p>More details will be provided later.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137850327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Photo-May-22-2026-5-04-55-PM.jpg\" alt=\"firefighters at scene of Staten Island shipyard explosion\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"BREAKING | Staten Island shipyard explosion leaves 16 people seriously injured, including two firefighters 2\"  \/>Two of the nine FDNY members were said to be in serious condition at a local hospital following the blast, which occurred just after 3:30 p.m. on May 22 at the Richmond Industrial Complex, located at 3075 Richmond Terrace.\u00a0Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion at a Staten Island shipyard on Friday afternoon left at least 16 people, including nine firefighters,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[55650,1169,94245,194,9917,30294,17685,45714,9,24,54,63,308,94246,94204,94247,134,136,135,94248],"class_list":["post-241154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-breaking-news-nyc","tag-emergency-response","tag-explosion-cause-unknown","tag-fdny","tag-fire-investigation","tag-firefighter-injuries","tag-first-responders","tag-industrial-accident","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-richmond-industrial-complex","tag-richmond-terrace","tag-shipyard-explosion","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-workplace-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241154","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=241154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}