{"id":314901,"date":"2026-08-06T03:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314901\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T03:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T03:22:47","slug":"bronx-families-face-uncertainty-after-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314901\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx families face uncertainty after fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The smoke may have cleared, but for dozens of Bronx residents, the fallout is only beginning.<\/p>\n

Inside P.S. 56, the Red Cross is helping families forced from their homes figure out where they’ll sleep and how they’ll replace what they left behind.<\/p>\n

“When the firefighter came, he broke the windows in and told me, ‘Follow me,'” fire victim Odhel Hernandez said.<\/p>\n

The Red Cross tells NY1 that at least 29 people<\/a> have come to the makeshift help center seeking assistance.<\/p>\n

Many escaped with little more than the clothes they were wearing. Some now need medication they could not reach before having to get out of their apartments.<\/p>\n

“They have medical needs. There’s one man there in a wheelchair who needs to get his medication. Another child there who has a disability,” Council Member Eric Dinowitz said.<\/p>\n

Danny Mercado said he smelled gas inside the building before the explosion \u2014 and believes it originated next door.<\/p>\n

He said the force of the explosion rocked his entire apartment.<\/p>\n

“The ceiling fell on my head. I got up to check the noise, the explosion. When I got up, I saw the wall was in my kitchen,” Mercado said.<\/p>\n

For Raul Sierra, there was no time to think about what might be lost. His only concern was getting his dog out safely.<\/p>\n

“When I grabbed him, I didn’t care anyone. As long as I grabbed him, that’s all it was. Everything else can be replaced,” Sierra said.<\/p>\n

Investigators are working to figure out what caused the fire. But for families, the immediate question is how to rebuild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The smoke may have cleared, but for dozens of Bronx residents, the fallout is only beginning. Inside P.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[387,25,128,388,9,24,12,63,308,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":["post-314901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-louis-finley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314901","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=314901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}