{"id":245577,"date":"2026-05-27T21:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245577\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:03:47","slug":"ks-nyc-staten-island-blast-paint-vapors-determined-as-cause-of-fatal-staten-island-shipyard-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/245577\/","title":{"rendered":"ks-NYC-STATEN-ISLAND-BLAST \/\/ Paint vapors determined as cause of fatal Staten Island shipyard explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK \u2014 Flammable paint vapors ignited at a Staten Island shipyard, causing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/05\/22\/major-explosion-staten-island-dockyard-injures-firefighters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:deadly fire and explosion;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;deadly fire and explosion&quot;}\" class=\"link \">deadly fire and explosion<\/a> that killed one person and injured more than 30 firefighters and first responders, FDNY officials announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators determined the explosion and two-alarm fire were accidental and caused by \u201cthe ignition of flammable vapors associated with industrial grade paint within the confined space,\u201d FDNY officials said in a statement Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fire marshal and a firefighter injured in the massive fire and explosion remain hospitalized from critical injuries they suffered in the Friday blast at the dry dock in Mariners Harbor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The FDNY says it received a report of workers trapped about 3:30 p.m. Friday, along with a fire in the back of the shipyard on Richmond Terrace near Andros Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That was followed by a major explosion nearly an hour later, at 4:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Firefighters scrambled to reach workers trapped in the basement of a metal structure near the docks, which was on fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Xiaoyuan Li, 56, of Flushing, Queens, was killed and 36 people, mostly firefighters, were hurt when a fire sparked the massive explosion at May Ship Repair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim, a husband and father of two, was a subcontractor who had worked with the company on multiple projects, according to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">_____<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Flammable paint vapors ignited at a Staten Island shipyard, causing the deadly fire and explosion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[94333,7403,194,77267,195,95935,30519,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-245577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-confined-space","tag-deadly-fire","tag-fdny","tag-fire-marshal","tag-firefighters","tag-flammable-vapors","tag-massive-fire","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\/245577","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=245577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}