{"id":264771,"date":"2026-06-12T18:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264771\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:59:13","slug":"news-12-bronx-crews-battle-hunts-point-building-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/264771\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Crews Battle Hunts Point Building Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Broken windows and shattered glass lay on the sidewalk on Hunts Point Ave. steps from where a fire broke out Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY says they responded to a fire on the third floor inside 721 Hunts Point Ave. just after 11p.m. on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Seventy-eight firefighters and crew members battled the flames. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fire left two people hurt. The FDNY says one person suffered serious injuries, while a firefighter experienced minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Both victims were taken to a local hospital and are expected to be ok. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An eyewitness tells News 12 after the fire broke out, they saw a man climbing down the fire escape screaming &#8220;my daughter, my daughter.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The neighbor says once the man reached the ground, he was covered in burns that spread throughout his head and arms. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The American Red Cross says they are assisting one family including three adults and one child. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire marshals are investigating the cause of the fire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broken windows and shattered glass lay on the sidewalk on Hunts Point Ave. steps from where a fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-264771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264771","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=264771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}