NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — One person was found dead inside a Bronx apartment building after an apparent explosion sparked a smokey five-alarm fire on Wednesday, and 14 others were injured to varying degrees, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n
The fire erupted at 374 East 209th St. in Norwood around 12:25 p.m. When firefighters arrived there was “fire blowing out many, many windows,” said FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore. <\/p>\n
Over 300 FDNY firefighters and EMS members responded to the scene, which Bonsignore called a “difficult fire on a hot and humid day.” She said multiple people had to be rescued from the building.<\/p>\n
In total, 14 people were injured, including eight civilians, at least one of which was a child. Among those injuries, two were life-threatening, two were serious and four were minor.<\/p>\n
Six firefighters were wounded in the response, half minorly and the other half seriously, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The FDNY fire marshal still has to enter the building to determine the cause of the initial blast, Bonsignore said.<\/p>\n
“What we do know is that there was an explosion, we don\u2019t know what the origin is,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — One person was found dead inside a Bronx apartment building after an apparent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,194,545,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-314825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-fdny","tag-fire","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\/314825","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=314825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}