{"id":316814,"date":"2026-08-08T18:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316814\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:06:44","slug":"third-body-found-after-bronx-explosion-fire-fdny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316814\/","title":{"rendered":"Third body found after Bronx explosion, fire: FDNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A third body has been found after <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/bronx\/news\/2026\/08\/05\/fire-the-bronx-norwood-fdny\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a fire and explosion<\/a> at a five-story Bronx apartment building, the FDNY said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said at least 14 others were injured <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/08\/08\/second-body-recovered-after-deadly-bronx-fire--officials-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">when the blaze broke out<\/a> on East 209th Street, between Decatur Avenue and Parkside Place in Norwood, Wednesday afternoon. One person remains hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>A woman told NY1 she believes her aunt is one of the bodies recovered from the building. The medical examiner has not confirmed the identities of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of building residents have been displaced. An investigation into the cause of the fire is ongoing, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into what caused the fire continues, according to officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A third body has been found after a fire and explosion at a five-story Bronx apartment building, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[387,25,128,55625,9,24,12,63,308,380,129,131,130,27],"class_list":["post-316814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-erin-pflaumer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316814","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=316814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}