Dozens of people were forced to evacuate a Claremont building this morning during a three-alarm fire.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out at the building located on Clay Avenue around 8:24 a.m. <\/p>\n
The FDNY says the fire was reported on the top floor in the space between the ceiling and the roof.<\/p>\n
After the fire was under control, a firefighter needed medical attention. News 12 cameras captured the firefighter being rolled out on a stretcher after a mayday call came in. It is unclear how the firefighter was injured.<\/p>\n
The FDNY also says another firefighter was hurt, along with two other people. One person is in serious condition.<\/p>\n
Residents say they have been complaining about the building\u2019s condition for months.<\/p>\n
The building windows on the sixth floor are blown out and the smell of smoke still remains in the air.<\/p>\n
News 12 has been seeing some residents return home.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not immediately clear how the fire started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of people were forced to evacuate a Claremont building this morning during a three-alarm fire. The fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-27085","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\/27085","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=27085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}