{"id":316997,"date":"2026-08-09T00:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316997\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T00:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T00:58:58","slug":"2-more-bodies-found-after-bronx-explosion-and-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316997\/","title":{"rendered":"2 more bodies found after Bronx explosion and fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"e989j\">Two more bodies have been found in the rubble of a deadly Bronx apartment fire, according to the FDNY, bringing the total death toll to three.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6qqk7\">The second body was discovered Friday afternoon in the debris of a five-alarm fire that tore through an apartment building in the Norwood neighborhood earlier this week. FDNY officials confirmed a third body was found on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a35bm\">Recovery operations had been delayed after the fire left the building unstable and the fire department worked to shore it up, according to FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a9do1\">Neither of the bodies has been identified. Previously, the FDNY had announced the death of a 40-year-old man as a result of the fire, which started with a loud explosion. A dozen others were injured and dozens more were left without homes following the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5i4f8\">The cause of the explosion that sparked the blaze remains under investigation. Dozens of people<a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/dozens-displaced-in-aftermath-of-bronx-fire-that-killed-40-year-old-man\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> have been displaced by the fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fdud1\">This story has been updated with additional information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two more bodies have been found in the rubble of a deadly Bronx apartment fire, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-316997","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\/316997","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=316997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}