{"id":272231,"date":"2026-06-19T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272231\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T20:35:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-massive-clouds-of-smoke-take-over-neighborhood-as-blaze-erupts-at-melrose-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272231\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Massive Clouds Of Smoke Take Over Neighborhood As Blaze Erupts At Melrose Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A blaze erupted inside a home in Melrose, sending massive clouds of thick smoke billowing into the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Citizen app footage taken around 2:30 p.m. Friday shows flames shooting from the home on East 160th St. as firefighters operate from stretched ladders above.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Notify NYC says the fire escalated to a third alarm, warning those nearby to close their windows.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to the FDNY for information and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Images posted on the FDNY&#8217;s X page show the house charred and destroyed.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This is a developing story. Stay with News 12 for the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blaze erupted inside a home in Melrose, sending massive clouds of thick smoke billowing into the neighborhood.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-272231","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\/272231","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=272231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}