Flames erupted on the Brooklyn Bridge as fireworks were being shot from it during Macy\u2019s July 4 display over the East River.<\/p>\n
Video shows a plume of smoke emerging from a flaming section of the bridge as fireworks soar and burst around it Saturday night. Two other sections also appeared to burn as the pyrotechnics were being shot from the span.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first I thought it was supposed to happen but then I was scared it would exploded. I thought the bridge was made of wood so I was scared,\u201d said Nearing Khoula, 24, from France, who was watching the display from the Brooklyn waterfront.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were four at the same time. Some extra fireworks exploded due to the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
A fire is seen on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, July 4, 2026.<\/p>\n
A picture of the fire on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, July 4, 2026. X\/StacyLynBurnet2<\/p>\n
A fire seen on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, July 4, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Fireworks seen going off by the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, July 4, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cIt started as a small fire and got bigger. There was too much black smoke,\u201d added Mohamed Shaban, 31, of Egypt. <\/p>\n
All the fires burned out after a minute, a Post reporter observed. <\/p>\n
It was not clear how much damage was done. The FDNY and the city DOT did not immediately respond to requests for comment. <\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flames erupted on the Brooklyn Bridge as fireworks were being shot from it during Macy\u2019s July 4 display…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[33453,98,11198,100,99,40550,77785,57,9,24,63,58],"class_list":["post-287024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-america-250","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-macys-fourth-of-july-fireworks-show","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287024","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=287024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}