{"id":298272,"date":"2026-07-17T00:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298272\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T00:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T00:08:18","slug":"power-poles-collapse-onto-cars-spark-fire-and-outages-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298272\/","title":{"rendered":"Power poles collapse onto cars, spark fire and outages in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-15-071320-300x170.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1212775\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VIDEO: Two utility poles collapsed onto parked cars in Coney Island on Wednesday morning, sparking a fire, crushing multiple vehicles and leaving nearly 900 customers without power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident happened shortly after 7 a.m. near West 36th Street and Surf Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video from the scene showed thick smoke billowing into the air as firefighters battled flames that erupted after the poles came crashing down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One fallen pole landed on top of a vehicle, crushing cars beneath it, while a transformer was seen resting on another parked car farther down West 36th Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several vehicles caught fire in the immediate aftermath of the collapse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No injuries were reported. However, the outage left hundreds of residents without electricity as temperatures climbed and windy conditions persisted across the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It remains unclear what caused the poles to fall. Con Edison crews responded to the scene, and a portion of West 36th Street remained closed as crews worked to make repairs and investigate the incident<\/p>\n<p>WABC-TV ABC 7 New York City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Two utility poles collapsed onto parked cars in Coney Island on Wednesday morning, sparking a fire, crushing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,5855,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-298272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-mid-atlantic-region","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298272","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=298272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}