{"id":314589,"date":"2026-08-05T20:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314589\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T20:20:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:20:51","slug":"5-alarm-fire-tears-through-bronx-apartment-building-injuring-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314589\/","title":{"rendered":"5-alarm fire tears through Bronx apartment building, injuring 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"lf1fh\">A five-alarm fire at a Bronx apartment building Wednesday afternoon left three people with serious injuries and several others with minor injuries, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"en6h4\">Firefighters responded to reports of an explosion just before 12:30 p.m. at 374 East 209th St. in Norwood.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4ljeg\">The blaze grew quickly, reaching a fifth alarm by 1:45 p.m. and drawing more than 270 firefighters and emergency service personnel to the scene. A video posted by FDNY on social media <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/2085053442028900815\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">showed flames<\/a> in the building and thick smoke billowing from the windows.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"lf1fh\">Three civilians were seriously injured and five others suffered less serious injuries, according to the department. Three firefighters were also injured.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1jdmd\">Authorities were encouraging nearby residents to avoid the smoke and close their windows.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9hjf7\">The cause of the reported explosion and fire was not immediately clear. The operation remained ongoing on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"br63g\">This is a developing news story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A five-alarm fire at a Bronx apartment building Wednesday afternoon left three people with serious injuries and several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-314589","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\/314589","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=314589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}