{"id":279550,"date":"2026-06-27T01:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279550\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T01:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:07:20","slug":"fire-at-shipyard-on-staten-island-prompts-fdny-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279550\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at shipyard on Staten Island prompts FDNY response"},"content":{"rendered":"

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A fire along the waterfront on Richmond Terrace in Port Richmond prompted a large FDNY response on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

The blaze was reported just after 10 a.m. at 2015 Richmond Terrace, near Park Avenue, according to a statement by the FDNY. The address provided by the Fire Department is a shipyard.<\/p>\n

A source at the scene said an acetylene torch caught fire. <\/p>\n

\"Fire\"Firefighters respond to a shipyard on Richmond Terrace in Port Richmond on Friday, June 26, 2026.(Dennis Rees for the Advance\/SILive.com)<\/p>\n

Crews had to wait for the leaking tank to empty before they could clear the area, an FDNY official said.<\/p>\n

Acetylene is a flammable gas commonly used in welding and metal-cutting torches. It\u2019s stored under pressure in tanks and burns at extremely high temperatures when ignited.<\/p>\n

Because of its volatility, firefighters cannot simply extinguish an acetylene fire if gas is still escaping.<\/p>\n

Twenty-one units, including 79 FDNY and EMS personnel responded and brought the matter under control at 11:23 a.m., the FDNY said. <\/p>\n

2nd shipyard fire<\/p>\n

This marks the second time in a little over a month a fire at a shipyard on Richmond Terrace prompted an FDNY response.<\/p>\n

On May 22, one civilian was killed and two firefighters were seriously injured in a fire and explosion in a metal barge at 3075 Richmond Terrace in Mariners Harbor<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A fire along the waterfront on Richmond Terrace in Port Richmond prompted a large…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-279550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279550","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=279550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}