{"id":314496,"date":"2026-08-05T18:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314496\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:16:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:16:23","slug":"at-least-1-hurt-in-fire-at-bronx-building-fdny-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314496\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 1 hurt in fire at Bronx building, FDNY says"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least one person was injured after a fire broke out at a building in the Bronx Monday afternoon, the FDNY said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The department said it responded to a report of an explosion and fire at a five-story building on East 209th Street, between Decatur Avenue and Parkside Place in Norwood, just before 12:30 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Firefighters discovered a blaze on the second and third floors of the building, according to the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The FDNY said one civilian was taken to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New York City Emergency Management said to expect smoke, traffic delays and emergency vehicles<\/a> in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As of 1:50 p.m., the fire had escalated to a five-alarm blaze<\/a>, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one person was injured after a fire broke out at a building in the Bronx Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[387,25,128,9,24,12,63,308,380,129,131,130,27],"class_list":["post-314496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314496","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=314496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}