{"id":300433,"date":"2026-07-20T08:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:39:08","slug":"5-firefighters-injured-battling-manhattan-high-rise-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/300433\/","title":{"rendered":"5 firefighters injured battling Manhattan high-rise fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/19532877_APT-fire-qo4Rj5-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1221154\" 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\">Five firefighters were injured while battling a fire at a high-rise apartment building on the Lower East Side late Friday night, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire was reported at 10:15 p.m. on the 17th floor of a 21-story residential building at 212 E. Broadway, between Jefferson and Clinton streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FDNY said 38 units and 120 fire and EMS personnel responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four firefighters were taken to New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital with minor, non-life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fifth firefighter was evaluated at the scene and refused medical attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire was brought under control at 11:59 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was no immediate word on whether any residents were injured or displaced.<\/p>\n<p>WABC-TV ABC 7 New York City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five firefighters were injured while battling a fire at a high-rise apartment building on the Lower East Side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,5855,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-300433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-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\/300433","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=300433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}