{"id":287369,"date":"2026-07-05T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287369\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:58:08","slug":"brooklyn-bridge-catches-fire-during-nyc-fireworks-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/287369\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Bridge Catches Fire During NYC Fireworks Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A fire broke out on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York during the city\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/america-250-weekend-heat-united-states-1eeaf21e91ed583595611251649db93e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July Fourth<\/a>\u00a0fireworks show, spreading flames and setting off a plume of smoke before firefighters extinguished the blaze. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two fire engines were used to put out the blaze, the city\u2019s fire department said. Firefighters were seen dousing the flames shortly before 10 p.m. on the bridge, which had been closed to traffic during the show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A department spokesperson said such fires are not unexpected and are why officials keep crowds at a distance during fireworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The show was moved up early because of the threat of severe weather that canceled and delayed other celebrations along the East Coast. That includes Washington, where storm prompted an evacuation of crowdgoers on the National Mall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All contents \u00a9 copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 A fire broke out on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York during the city\u2019s\u00a0July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,8406,13498,9,24,47297,63],"class_list":["post-287369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fireworks","tag-headlines","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news-feed","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287369","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=287369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}