{"id":241446,"date":"2026-05-23T03:14:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241446\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:14:40","slug":"1-killed-36-injured-in-explosion-on-staten-island-fdny-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241446\/","title":{"rendered":"1 killed, 36 injured in explosion on Staten Island, FDNY reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fox local;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fox local\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Fri, May 22, 2026 at 9:53 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>One person was killed and 36 were injured in an explosion on Staten Island, according to FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>All were taken to the nearest hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It is not currently known what caused the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>STATEN ISLAND &#8211; One person was killed and 36 were injured in an explosion on Staten Island, according to FDNY.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/ea6493b090f3ff34d6d71e1038c8ccad.jpeg\"\/>16 injured in explosion<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p>FDNY reports that an explosion occurred at 3075 Richmond Terrace at 4:19 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>All were taken to the nearest hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/edfe716167a70554044a380ad2c3d55b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p>It is not currently known what caused the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p>New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke with FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore and other city officials to share details about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin posted about the situation on X.<\/p>\n<p>Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon also <a data-ylk=\"slk:posted a statement about the explosion;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StatenIslandDA\/status\/2057948011427209612?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">posted a statement about the explosion<\/a>, asking people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Source<\/p>\n<p>This article includes information provided by FDNY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, May 22, 2026 at 9:53 PM UTC The Brief One person was killed and 36 were injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[194,22794,19077,94329,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-241446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-fdny","tag-fdny-commissioner","tag-julie-menin","tag-nearest-hospital","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241446","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=241446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}