{"id":314508,"date":"2026-08-05T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314508\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:32:07","slug":"at-least-6-hurt-in-fire-at-bronx-building-fdny-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314508\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 6 hurt in fire at Bronx building, FDNY says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least six people were injured after a fire broke out at a building in the Bronx Wednesday afternoon, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p>The department 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<p>Firefighters discovered a blaze on the second and third floors of the building, according to the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY said five civilians were hospitalized, two in critical condition and three in stable condition. A firefighter also sustained serious injuries, the department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York City Emergency Management said to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NotifyNYC\/status\/2085047058143097080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">expect smoke, traffic delays and emergency vehicles<\/a> in the area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of 1:50 p.m., the fire had <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/2085060585087987743\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">escalated to a five-alarm blaze<\/a>, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least six people were injured after a fire broke out at a building in the Bronx Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[387,25,9,24,11,10,12,308,380,129,27],"class_list":["post-314508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-the-bronx","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314508","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=314508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314508\/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=314508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}