{"id":241493,"date":"2026-05-23T04:46:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241493\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:46:35","slug":"one-dead-and-dozens-of-firefighters-injured-in-staten-island-shipyard-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241493\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead and dozens of firefighters injured in Staten Island shipyard explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BBC\"<\/a>Sat, May 23, 2026 at 1:54 AM UTC\"The<\/p>\n

Staten Island, a New York City borough reachable by ferry, is southwest of Manhattan<\/p>\n

One person has died and more than 30 people have been injured after an explosion on a barge at a Staten Island shipyard in New York City.<\/p>\n

At least 34 people were hurt in the incident on Friday including firefighters and first responders, officials said. The person who died was a civilian, the New York City Fire Department said.<\/p>\n

The incident began with a report of workers trapped and a fire at around 15:30 local time (20:30 BST). An explosion erupted roughly 50 minutes later, prompting additional emergency responders to deploy to the scene.<\/p>\n

“This was a complex, fast-developing emergency situation,” New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said during a news conference on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

Two workers were reportedly trapped in a confined space as the fire was spreading, Joanne Mariano with the fire department’s press office said, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n

When firefighters arrived, they located a fire in the basement of a metal structure at the dock.<\/p>\n

It is not clear yet what caused the fire and explosion.<\/p>\n

One fire marshal is in a critical condition and one firefighter is in a serious condition as of Friday evening, the mayor said during the news conference.<\/p>\n

Officials told US media that people in the area should expect traffic delays and road closures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, May 23, 2026 at 1:54 AM UTC Staten Island, a New York City borough reachable by ferry,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[195,9,24,37283,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-241493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-firefighters","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-fire-department","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\/241493","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=241493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}