{"id":30979,"date":"2025-11-06T18:16:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30979\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T18:16:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:16:25","slug":"cause-revealed-for-bronx-car-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30979\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause revealed for Bronx car explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 Fire investigators believe they have zeroed in on what caused a fire that led to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/reported-bronx-explosion-sends-firefighters-010629673.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:explosion in the Bronx;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">explosion in the Bronx<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators are no longer searching for an arson suspect as the FDNY initially believed, sources tell PIX11 News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:More Local News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> More Local News <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is believed that the fire was caused by the careless disposal of smoking material that lit the garbage, which then spread to the vehicles next to the pile, according to sources. A van\u2019s gas tank caused the explosion itself, sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The explosion at 955 Westchester Ave. in Longwood resulted in five firefighters being taken to the hospital, including one who needed treatment for serious burns to the face, sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No other injuries were reported at the scene, according to the FDNY<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Spencer Gustafson is a digital content producer from Long Island who has covered New York state and city news since 2023. See more of his work <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/spencer-gustafson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) \u2014 Fire investigators believe they have zeroed in on what caused a fire that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,18891,194,18890,9,24,63,329,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-30979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-careless-disposal","tag-fdny","tag-fire-investigators","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pix11","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\/30979","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=30979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}