{"id":314481,"date":"2026-08-05T17:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314481\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:56:10","slug":"explosion-fire-at-bronx-building-leave-at-least-5-injured-fdny-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314481\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion, fire at Bronx building leave at least 5 injured, FDNY says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion at a Bronx building left at least five people injured amid a multi-alarm fire, firefighters said.<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY said it received a call just before 12:30 p.m. Wednesday about an explosion and fire at 374 East 209th Street in the Norwood section.<\/p>\n<p>It quickly escalated to a four-alarm fire engulfing the second and third floors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/bronx-fire.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"bronx-fire.jpg \" height=\"366\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A fire broke out on East 209th Street in the Norwood section of the Bronx on Aug. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Citizen.com<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials said at least two people were critically\u00a0hurt and rushed to a hospital. Firefighters expect smoke and traffic delays in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Crews are urging people nearby to avoid smoke and close windows as they continue to put the flames out.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion at a Bronx building left at least five people injured amid a multi-alarm fire, firefighters said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-314481","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\/314481","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=314481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}