{"id":319584,"date":"2026-08-12T16:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319584\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T16:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T16:14:14","slug":"on-duty-nyc-parks-worker-arrested-in-10-year-olds-playground-fireworks-accident-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319584\/","title":{"rendered":"On-duty NYC parks worker arrested in 10-year-old\u2019s playground fireworks accident \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An NYC Parks Department employee was arrested late Tuesday in connection with a fireworks incident that badly injured a 10-year-old girl on Staten Island earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old employee was on duty at the time of the 6:45 p.m. accident in Gen. Douglas Macarthur Park in Midland Beach, officials say. <\/p>\n<p>The exact circumstances of the case weren&#8217;t immediately clear, but reports said the parks employee may have helped the child light the explosive. <\/p>\n<p>Police say she suffered a hand injury. They didn&#8217;t say if she lost fingers.<\/p>\n<p>The parks worker is charged with child and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>The parks department couldn&#8217;t immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYC Parks Department employee was arrested late Tuesday in connection with a fireworks incident that badly injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-319584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319584","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=319584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}