{"id":287158,"date":"2026-07-05T07:57:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287158\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T07:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T07:57:43","slug":"fire-breaks-out-on-new-yorks-brooklyn-bridge-during-us-independence-day-fireworks-display-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287158\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire breaks out on New Yorks Brooklyn Bridge during US Independence Day fireworks display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afire broke out on New York City&#8217;s Brooklyn Bridge during the Macy&#8217;s US Independence Day celebration fireworks display on Saturday night, with no injuries immediately reported.<\/p>\n<p>Flames and smoke rose from sections of the iconic bridge as fireworks were launched from the span over the East River, according to videos posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had not announced the extent of the damage to the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred during Macy&#8217;s annual Independence Day fireworks show as the US marked the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afire broke out on New York City&#8217;s Brooklyn Bridge during the Macy&#8217;s US Independence Day celebration fireworks display&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-287158","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\/287158","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=287158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}