{"id":30445,"date":"2025-11-06T06:32:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30445\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T06:32:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T06:32:28","slug":"5-firefighters-injured-in-vehicle-explosion-in-the-bronx-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30445\/","title":{"rendered":"5 firefighters injured in vehicle explosion in the Bronx, NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple firefighters were injured when an explosion occurred near a burning vehicle in the Bronx, New York City, according to preliminary information.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred on Wednesday night near Fox Street and Westchester Avenue, a mixed residential and commercial area, according to the NYC\u2019s official emergency notification system.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders said several firefighters were injured, and preliminary information from PIX11 indicated that five were hurt and taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A video posted on social media showed a white commercial van on fire moments before an explosion erupted just behind it, sending a large fireball into the air. The cause of the blast remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>\tArticle continues below the player<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news alert. Please check back or follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNONews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">@BNONews<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BNODesk\" rel=\"nofollow\">@BNODesk<\/a> on X\/Twitter as details become available. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bnonews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">like us on Facebook by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple firefighters were injured when an explosion occurred near a burning vehicle in the Bronx, New York City,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,18624,620,9,24,18643,63,129,18644,131,130,901],"class_list":["post-30445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-explosion","tag-featured","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-new-york","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-new-york","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30445","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=30445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}