{"id":241786,"date":"2026-05-23T16:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241786\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T16:44:02","slug":"15-fdny-firefighter-emts-injured-in-explosion-at-staten-island-dry-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241786\/","title":{"rendered":"15 FDNY Firefighter, EMTs Injured in Explosion at Staten Island Dry Dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\u00a0\u2014 A fire at a\u00a0Staten Island\u00a0dockyard sparked a massive explosion that left 16 people \u2014 including 13 firefighters and two emergency medics \u2014 hospitalized on Friday, according to the\u00a0FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze ignited in the basement of a metal building at the rear of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@40.6381336,-74.161748,415m\/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDUyMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the coastal facility in\u00a0Mariners Harbor<\/a> around\u00a03:30 p.m., fire officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just more than 50 minutes later \u2014 well after the inferno at the\u00a0Richmond Terrace\u00a0dockyard near\u00a0Andros Ave.\u00a0had risen to a two-alarm fire \u2014 the building was suddenly rocked by an explosion that fire officials described as \u201cmajor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One civilian and two firefighters suffered serious injuries. Two firefighters suffered moderate injuries, while nine firefighters and two medics received minor injuries. All injured parties were transported to local hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The firefighting operation remained ongoing late Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>_____<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92026 New York Daily News. Visit at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nydailynews.com<\/a>. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK\u00a0\u2014 A fire at a\u00a0Staten Island\u00a0dockyard sparked a massive explosion that left 16 people \u2014 including 13&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-241786","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\/241786","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=241786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}