{"id":30517,"date":"2025-11-06T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30517\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T08:34:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T08:34:19","slug":"videos-7-firefighters-hurt-after-fire-spreads-to-parked-cars-leads-to-massive-explosion-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30517\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEOS: 7 firefighters hurt after fire spreads to parked cars, leads to massive explosion in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot-2025-11-05-234352-e1762415070689-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-450458\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Seven firefighters were injured, including some with serious burns, after a trash fire spread to several cars, leading to a massive explosion in the Bronx on Wednesday, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY says firefighters responded to a call of reported car explosion around 7 p.m. at 955 Westchester Ave. in the Longwood section.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say garbage and debris were on fire on the sidewalk. The flames spread to a couple of cars before the large explosion occurred.<\/p>\n<p>People watched from their windows as the fire burned on the street below. Suddenly, a ball of fire was right outside their window.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m like, how am I going to get out? That\u2019s what I thought,\u201d said eyewitness, Liza Almonte. \u201cLike what now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Almonte works with children who have autism inside a building near Fox Street and Westchester Avenue when she saw garbage, debris and cars on fire, and firefighters rushing to put it out.<\/p>\n<p>Their job took a dangerous turn as an explosion rocked the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>WABC-TV ABC 7 New York City<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9c543eaadc4e3a19f805d39804be635b.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"Video captured the moment a car explosion became a massive fireball in the Bronx\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven firefighters were injured, including some with serious burns, after a trash fire spread to several cars, leading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,5855,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-30517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-mid-atlantic-region","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-the-bronx","14":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","15":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30517","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=30517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}