{"id":241496,"date":"2026-05-23T04:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241496\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:56:18","slug":"explosion-at-staten-island-dry-dock-leaves-1-dead-36-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241496\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion at Staten Island dry dock leaves 1 dead, 36 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An explosion at a dry dock in New York City’s Staten Island killed one person and injured 36 others on \u200cFriday, as the blast occurred while firefighters were on the scene responding to a basement fire and attempting to \u200brescue two people who were trapped, \u200bofficials said.<\/p>\n

Two firefighters were hospitalized, including a fire marshal who suffered a fractured \u200btemple and a brain bleed \u2060and was intubated, officials \u2060said. The \u200cother firefighter was in serious condition but had shown improvement, officials said.<\/p>\n

“This was a complex, fast-developing emergency situation,” New York Mayor \u2060Zohran Mamdani told reporters.<\/p>\n

“First responders did what they always do: they ran towards danger so others \u200ccould escape to safety.”<\/p>\n

Officials did not provide details about the person who died except to say it was a civilian.<\/p>\n

A \u200bcomprehensive investigation will begin once the fire was completely \u2060extinguished, Mamdani said.<\/p>\n

The incident took \u200bplace in \u2060the Richmond Terrace section of the borough of Staten Island, a part of New York City that is across the harbour from Manhattan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-241496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","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\/241496","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=241496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}