{"id":30504,"date":"2025-11-06T08:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30504\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:03:11","slug":"viral-video-shows-bronx-car-explosion-sending-massive-fireball-into-the-night-sky-injuring-7-fdny-firefighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30504\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral video shows Bronx car explosion sending massive fireball into the night sky, injuring 7 FDNY firefighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video shows a massive car explosion in the Bronx that sent a towering fireball into the night sky and injured seven FDNY firefighters in a dramatic scene captured on video. Authorities say the explosion occurred as crews responded to a fire in Longwood, leaving a charred vehicle and debris in its wake. The fire was under control by 8:19 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were responding to a fire in front of a building between Intervale Avenue and Kelly Street around 7:06 pm when the car suddenly erupted into flames. Chief of Department <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/john-esposito\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">John Esposito<\/a> described the moment as a \u201clarge fireball\u201d that engulfed the scene shortly after the first responders arrived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a lot of garbage and debris on the sidewalk that was on fire. There were a couple of cars on fire. And shortly after we arrived on the scene, there was some sort of explosion, a large fireball,\u201d Chief of Department John Esposito said at a news conference, according to the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/new-york-post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Post<\/a> website.<br \/>\u2014 JamalibnAmin (@JamalibnAmin) <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamalibnAmin\/status\/1986263508934406589\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\u2014 XNews24_7 (@XNews24_7) <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XNews24_7\/status\/1986246381011710346\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\u2014 geotechwar (@geotechwar) <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geotechwar\/status\/1986272228439420974\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ET logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/118783427.cms.png\" width=\"90%\"\/>Live Events\u2014 FreedomNTV (@FreedomNTV) <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreedomNTV\/status\/1986292071355842787\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>Five of the seven injured firefighters sustained burns to their hands and faces, though officials described the injuries as serious but not life-threatening. Chief John Esposito confirmed that all are \u201cawake, alert and speaking,\u201dwhile Dr. Sheldon Temperman of <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/topic\/jacobi-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jacobi Hospital<\/a> said he remains \u201cworried\u201d but expects the first responders to recover from their injuries.\u201cI\u2019ll be worried until they\u2019re all home, but we do expect that they will recover from their injuries,\u201d Temperman told reporters.<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video shows a massive car explosion in the Bronx that sent a towering fireball into the night sky&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,18557,18663,18606,18661,18660,18664,16458,18665,18662,9,24,4330,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-30504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-bronx-car-explosion","10":"tag-explosion-injuries","11":"tag-fdny-firefighters-injured","12":"tag-fire-response-in-bronx","13":"tag-fireball-explosion-video","14":"tag-firefighter-safety","15":"tag-jacobi-hospital","16":"tag-john-esposito","17":"tag-longwood-fire","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-new-york-post","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-the-bronx","23":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","24":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30504","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=30504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}