{"id":314543,"date":"2026-08-05T19:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314543\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:20:53","slug":"news-12-bronx-eleven-person-critically-injured-after-flames-erupt-at-norwood-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314543\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Eleven Person Critically Injured After Flames Erupt At Norwood Apartment Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Eleven people, including three firefighters, were injured after a five-alarm fire erupted in a Norwood apartment building Wednesday afternoon, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Firefighters responded to a 911 call at 12:26 p.m. for an explosion on the second and third floors of 374 E 209th St.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Video shows thick black smoke billowing out of the windows, with FDNY and emergency crews on scene. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Three residents are critically injured.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Three firefighters also sustained injuries. The severity of their injuries remains unclear at this time. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire crews are still working to extinguish the blaze. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No word yet on what caused the explosion.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This is a developing story. Stay with News 12 for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eleven people, including three firefighters, were injured after a five-alarm fire erupted in a Norwood apartment building Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-314543","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\/314543","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=314543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}