{"id":314722,"date":"2026-08-05T23:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314722\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T23:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:00:56","slug":"fdny-battery-eyed-in-mult-alarm-bronx-blast-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314722\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY: Battery Eyed in Mult-Alarm Bronx Blast, Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"krtByline\">Rocco Parascandola<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtCreditLine\">New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtBug\">(TNS)<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">One person was seriously hurt Wednesday afternoon in a\u00a0Bronx\u00a0four-alarm fire that may have been caused by a lithium-ion battery explosion, the\u00a0FDNY\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">The first 911 caller, at\u00a012:26 p.m., reported an explosion on the third floor of a five-story apartment building in\u00a0Norwood\u00a0on\u00a0E. 209th St.\u00a0near\u00a0Parkside Place, the\u00a0FDNY\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">When firefighters arrived, black smoke was billowing from the windows, with fire on the second and third floors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">Firefighters are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/2085053442028900815\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow\">still battling<\/a>\u00a0the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"krtText\">\u00a92026 New York Daily News. Visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nydailynews.com<\/a>. Distributed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tribunecontentagency.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"krtShirttail\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rocco Parascandola New York Daily News (TNS) One person was seriously hurt Wednesday afternoon in a\u00a0Bronx\u00a0four-alarm fire that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-314722","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\/314722","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=314722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}