{"id":298624,"date":"2026-07-17T13:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298624\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:35:09","slug":"fire-reported-in-midtown-manhattan-sparking-mass-transit-disruption-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298624\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Reported in Midtown Manhattan Sparking Mass Transit Disruption Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A fire was reported in Midtown, Manhattan, in New York City on July 17.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York&#8217;s official emergency notification system <a data-ylk=\"slk:reported activity;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\/2078076972928750058?s=20\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">reported activity<\/a> from the New York Fire Department near Madison Avenue &amp; East 53rd Street and warned &#8220;mass transit disruptions&#8221; are expected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Timothy Buckley said he filmed this video of a fire truck on East 53rd Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I work at a financial building in Midtown, a fire broke out and we evacuated, an army of firefighters and police are here,&#8221; he <a data-ylk=\"slk:posted on X;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\/timbuckley4413\/status\/2078081147976737133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2078081147976737133%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">posted on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story Credit: @timbuckley4413 via Storyful<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fire was reported in Midtown, Manhattan, in New York City on July 17. New York&#8217;s official emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[113578,75,84,83,360,9,24,21478,63,113577],"class_list":["post-298624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-emergency-notification-system","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-midtown","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-fire-department","tag-nyc","tag-timothy-buckley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298624","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=298624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}