{"id":287201,"date":"2026-07-05T10:43:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287201\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T10:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:43:55","slug":"fire-breaks-out-on-brooklyn-bridge-during-july-4-fireworks-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287201\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Breaks Out on Brooklyn Bridge During July 4 Fireworks Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fire broke out on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City during Macy&#8217;s Fourth of July fireworks display, local media <a data-ylk=\"slk:reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/fire-breaks-brooklyn-bridge-amid-macys-fireworks-display\/19450005\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to <a data-ylk=\"slk:ABC7 New York,;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/fire-breaks-brooklyn-bridge-amid-macys-fireworks-display\/19450005\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 New York,<\/a> the fire broke out at 9:30 pm on the Manhattan-bound side of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Footage captured by Charlie Kim shows the fire burning as fireworks are set off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fireworks display was scheduled to begin at 9:02 pm, officials <a data-ylk=\"slk:said.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NotifyNYC\/status\/2073563427512222095\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">said.<\/a> The show included more than 85,000 fireworks in 30 different colors, according to <a data-ylk=\"slk:reports;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/nyc-july-4th-fireworks-2026-where-to-watch\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>. Credit: Charlie Kim via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire broke out on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City during Macy&#8217;s Fourth of July fireworks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[93031,98,11198,100,99,109883,109875,109869,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-287201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-abc7-new-york","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-charlie-kim","tag-fire-burning","tag-fireworks-display","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287201","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=287201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}