{"id":267941,"date":"2026-06-15T22:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267941\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T22:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T22:44:11","slug":"news-12-connecticut-vacant-van-nest-building-damaged-in-two-alarm-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267941\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Connecticut | Vacant Van Nest Building Damaged In Two Alarm Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A two-alarm fire damaged a vacant mixed-use building on Unionport Road in Van Nest on Monday afternoon, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire officials say crews responded just before 1 p.m. to 1729 Unionport Road, where flames broke out in the rear portion of a three-story building that once housed a bakery on the ground floor with apartments above.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">More than 140 firefighters and EMS personnel responded to the scene. The fire was eventually upgraded to a second alarm as crews worked to locate the source of smoke hidden within the building\u2019s walls and prevent flames from spreading to neighboring structures.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The building was vacant at the time of the fire, leaving the block largely empty as firefighters battled the blaze. Fire marshals are now investigating what caused the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A building manager, who declined to speak on camera, told News 12 her team had only taken over management of the property two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A two-alarm fire damaged a vacant mixed-use building on Unionport Road in Van Nest on Monday afternoon, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-267941","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\/267941","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=267941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}