{"id":3144,"date":"2025-10-15T09:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3144\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:58:12","slug":"ambulance-charred-in-fire-on-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3144\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulance charred in fire on Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Fire\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/HMNX4J6V25ESZNDKVRQZMOPMSQ.png\"\/>A badly-damaged ambulance could be seen on Forest Avenue in West Brighton after apparently catching fire on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025.(Advance\/SILive.com | Luke Peteley)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SJ6AWW2KYJFJLAWZF2EB5GQMNE\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 An ambulance was badly damaged after it apparently caught fire in West Brighton on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SJS6C5DDRVHIFJISU7RYSNT3JU\">The badly-charred vehicle was seen on Forest Avenue near Broadway.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fire\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BZA3SQTZKREGTK4TMBZZQFM7QY.png\"\/>A badly-damaged ambulance could be seen on Forest Avenue in West Brighton after apparently catching fire on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025.(Advance\/SILive.com | Luke Peteley)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FTOUG7YO2BATBPOSNKWGO7Z6FU\">The fire was reported around 2 p.m., according to emergency radio transmissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NJ43GM5E7BDWNAXB6STHFUJ5LA\">The Richmond University Medical Center ambulance sustained significant burn damage to its engine and front sides panels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BDOKGKYXCFBIVO6XAXLPTA3TT4\">The vehicle\u2019s hood was removed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MFURY6WCRFHKDBZQ3TPXTOHA4Q\">This is a breaking news story. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Breaking\/trending news reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A badly-damaged ambulance could be seen on Forest Avenue in West Brighton after apparently catching fire on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-3144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144","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=3144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}