{"id":242093,"date":"2026-05-24T00:46:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T00:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242093\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T00:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T00:46:44","slug":"major-explosion-rocks-staten-island-dockyard-injures-16-including-13-firefighters-national-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242093\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Major explosion\u2019 rocks Staten Island dockyard, injures 16, including 13 firefighters | National News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A fire at a Staten Island dockyard sparked a massive explosion that left 16 people \u2014 including 13 firefighters and two emergency medics \u2014 hospitalized on Friday, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>Just more than 50 minutes later \u2014 well after the inferno at the Richmond Terrace dockyard near Andros Ave. had 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 A fire at a Staten Island dockyard sparked a massive explosion that left 16 people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[531,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-242093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-national","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\/242093","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=242093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}