{"id":314527,"date":"2026-08-05T19:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314527\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:01:42","slug":"explosion-fire-at-bronx-building-badly-injures-1-lithium-ion-battery-eyed-fdny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314527\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion, fire at Bronx building badly injures 1, lithium-ion battery eyed: FDNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person was seriously hurt Wednesday afternoon in a Bronx four-alarm fire that may have been caused by a lithium-ion battery explosion, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p>The first 911 caller, at 12:26 p.m., reported an explosion on the third floor of a five-story apartment building in Norwood on E. 209th St. near Parkside Place, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p>When firefighters arrived, black smoke was billowing from the windows, with fire on the second and third floors.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters are <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/2085053442028900815\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">still battling<\/a> the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person was seriously hurt Wednesday afternoon in a Bronx four-alarm fire that may have been caused by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[47152,128,18624,194,6910,9,24,63,51933,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-314527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-apartment-building-fire","tag-bronx","tag-explosion","tag-fdny","tag-lithium-ion-battery","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-serious-injury","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\/314527","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=314527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}