{"id":31635,"date":"2025-11-07T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31635\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:44:10","slug":"update-officials-say-cigarette-butt-caused-fiery-explosion-that-injured-7-firefighters-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/31635\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Officials say cigarette butt caused fiery explosion that injured 7 firefighters in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/18122116_110625-wabc-charred-car-img-DzEoo2-300x169.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-454998\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEOS: The careless disposal of a cigarette butt is being blamed for causing a fiery explosion in the Bronx that left seven firefighters injured on Wednesday night, according to FDNY officials.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation by FDNY Fire Marshalls determined that the cigarette butt caused a trash fire which spread to a nearby vehicle, igniting its gas tank and causing an explosion, officials said on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the seven injured firefighters are still recovering in the hospital one day later and new surveillance video revealed clues hinting at the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Video shows a cigarette tossed by someone in a group hanging out on a nearby stoop roll toward the garbage. A few minutes later, flames were barely visible before one person went over to look.<\/p>\n<p>The trash was stacked high enough to reach the parked cars due to no DSNY collection on Election Day on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>WABC-TV ABC 7 New York City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEOS: The careless disposal of a cigarette butt is being blamed for causing a fiery explosion in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,5855,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-31635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mid-atlantic-region","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\/31635","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=31635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}