New York Times<\/a> and other reports.<\/p>\nThe New York City Fire Department received calls at around 7 p.m. about burning trash on a sidewalk on Westchester Avenue, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n
Firefighters arrived to find rubbish and debris ablaze on the pavement and vehicles on the street also on fire, the paper said.<\/p>\n
The blaze was brought under control by about 8:20 p.m., according to the Fire Department, the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n
Injuries and hospital treatment details<\/p>\n
Five firefighters sustained serious burns to their hands and faces, New York City Fire Department officials said, as reported by the New York Times.<\/p>\n
Dr Sheldon Teperman, who was treating some of the firefighters at Jacobi Medical Center, said they were expected to recover fully, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n
Three firefighters were being treated at the hospital on Wednesday night, according to the chief, the New York Times said.<\/p>\n
It was not clear when the hospitalised firefighters would be discharged, the paper added.<\/p>\n
Explosion cause and scene conditions<\/p>\n
The fire appeared to have spread from the sidewalk trash to nearby vehicles before the explosion, Fire Department spokesman Stephen Rhine told reporters, as cited by the New York Times.<\/p>\n
The cause of the fire remained under investigation on Wednesday night, Fire Department Chief John M. Esposito said, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n
John M. Esposito, Fire Department Chief, said: \u201cShortly after we arrived on the scene, there was some sort of explosion, a large fireball,\u201d.<\/p>\n
Officials described a large fireball at the scene following the initial response, the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n
Investigation and next steps reported<\/p>\n
Officials did not provide a timeline for releasing those who remained in hospital, the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n
No further details on the origin of the blaze were available on Wednesday night, according to the paper.<\/p>\n
The location was identified as Westchester Avenue in the Bronx, New York City, the New York Times said.<\/p>\n
Relevance for fire and safety professionals<\/p>\n
Incident commanders and senior officers can reference the reported sequence in which a pavement rubbish fire involved nearby vehicles and preceded an explosion.<\/p>\n
Training officers and instructors can use the timing details \u2013 calls at about 7 p.m. and control by about 8:20 p.m. \u2013 to frame urban response drills.<\/p>\n
Equipment specifiers and PPE leads can note that five firefighters received burns to hands and faces, which aligns with exposure patterns at close-range exterior fires.<\/p>\n
Hospital outcomes described by Dr Sheldon Teperman indicate expectations of full recovery for those treated, which may inform post-incident welfare planning.<\/p>\n
Fire investigation teams can align their early-scene procedures with the report that the cause remained under investigation and that vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx street fire and explosion timeline Seven firefighters were injured after an explosion during a street fire in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-30588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30588","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=30588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}