Seven firefighters were injured when a car exploded in the Bronx, sending a giant fireball into the sky on Wednesday evening, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The smoke-eaters were responding to a fire in front of a building between Intervale Avenue and Kelly Street in Longwood when the blast occurred around 7:06 p.m., according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n
The explosion was captured in jaw-dropping footage that shows billowing flames and plumes of smoke towering over the street.<\/p>\n
Six firefighters were hurt after a massive car explosion in the Bronx on Wednesday night. Federico Cruz<\/p>\n
Harrowing video shows residents fleeing from the flames. Federico Cruz<\/p>\n
Officials said 7 FDNY firefighters sustained injuries while responding to the scene. Three of them were transported to Jacobi Hospital. <\/p>\n
The fire was under control by 8:19 p.m., authorities added.<\/p>\n
The extent of the firefighters\u2019 injuries is unknown. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n
An investigation remains ongoing. James Keivom for New York Post<\/p>\n
The firefighters were taken to Jacobi Hospital for evaluation. James Keivom for New York Post<\/p>\n
The fire was under control by 8:19 p.m., authorities said. James Keivom for New York Post<\/p>\n
No pedestrian injuries have been reported so far, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
The extent of the firefighter\u2019s injuries is not immediately clear.<\/p>\n
An investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n
This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven firefighters were injured when a car exploded in the Bronx, sending a giant fireball into the sky…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3531,194,544,57,9,11,10,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-30345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-explosions","9":"tag-fdny","10":"tag-fires","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-the-bronx","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30345","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=30345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}