{"id":307938,"date":"2026-07-28T20:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307938\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T20:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:11:53","slug":"fire-damages-manhattan-apartment-complex-three-units-deemed-uninhabitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307938\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Damages Manhattan Apartment Complex, Three Units Deemed Uninhabitable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Press Release \/ photo provided by Canva<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Manhattan Fire Department (MFD) responded to a fire at a two-story, eight-unit apartment building at 6:45 p.m. this Monday. The department determined the fire started on the balcony of a second-story apartment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the City\u2019s statement, an MFD fire investigator is working to determine the exact cause of the fire, but they do not suspect foul play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant Chief of Operations Sam Dameron said that at the time of the alarm, the heat index was at 112.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire within 10 minutes, and remained on scene until after midnight to overhaul the structure and make sure there were no additional dangers.<\/p>\n<p>MFD estimates the loss of contents at $40,000 and the damage to the structure at $100,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No people or animals were injured, though three apartment units were deemed uninhabitable overnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press Release \/ photo provided by Canva The Manhattan Fire Department (MFD) responded to a fire at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-307938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307938","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=307938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}