{"id":273620,"date":"2026-06-22T06:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273620\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T06:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:33:18","slug":"body-found-in-rubble-of-bronx-house-fire-fdny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273620\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in rubble of Bronx house fire: FDNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELROSE, The Bronx \u2014 Firefighters found a body in the rubble of a three-alarm house fire in Melrose, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the department said a right-side wall collapsed in what started as a 2nd-alarm fire and was quickly upgraded to a third just after 2:30 p.m. Friday at 794 East 160th St. in Melrose.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tDiscover more local reporting on our homepage\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The initial call was for a heavy fire on the second floor of the two-story private home between Trinity and Jackson Avenues. The fire extended to an adjoining building, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was under control two hours and nearly 200 FDNY personnel later, but one person was found dead during operations.<\/p>\n<p>Officials did not release the deceased\u2019s identity and are working to find the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Gustafson is a digital content producer from Long Island who has covered New York state and city news since 2023. See more of his work <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/spencer-gustafson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELROSE, The Bronx \u2014 Firefighters found a body in the rubble of a three-alarm house fire in Melrose,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-273620","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\/273620","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=273620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}