![\"Boarded](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/devlin-11p-pkg-universi-wcbsiq59-hi-res-still-00-00-3213.jpg#.jpeg\")
<\/p>\nPolice say they are investigating a fire that injured one person and damaged a row of Bronx businesses as possible arson.<\/p>\n
It started just before 10:15 p.m. Tuesday at a deli on West 183rd Street between Jerome and Davidson avenues in the Fordham section.<\/p>\n
In surveillance video, it appears as though people are crowded at the door as flames erupt and burst several times.<\/p>\n
According to police sources, witnesses said two men threw two bottles containing an unknown substance into the deli.<\/p>\n
Witness Andrew Franco said he sprung into action when he learned a person was still inside the building.<\/p>\n
“I run into the fire through the back entrance of the doorway. I kick the door in to drag the person out,” he said. “I grabbed somebody. He was halfway burnt. His arms, his legs … some of his face.”<\/p>\n
Police say the 33-year-old man was taken to a local hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Police say a fire damaged a row of Bronx businesses on Aug. 11, 2026.<\/p>\n
CBS News New York<\/p>\n
Jesus Beserra was right next door where he works at Las Palmas Bakery when he heard what he described as an explosion.<\/p>\n
“Smoke started coming out. I recorded it, and then I left because things started to get really bad,” he told CBS News New York in Spanish.<\/p>\n
Video shows firefighters were forced to break the bakery’s windows as it filled with smoke.<\/p>\n
“There was a lot of smoke, and they needed to get inside to cut the gas supply,” Beserra said.<\/p>\n
Over 140 FDNY personnel responded. A partial vacate order has been issued for the building due to the damage.<\/p>\n
Bakery manager Oskar Guzman says they will rebuild, but it will take time.<\/p>\n
“I have to work again. We have to rebuild the building again,” he said. “We have to see the insurance and everything like that to put it back again, the business.”<\/p>\n
The exact cause of the fire has yet to be determined, and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n
\n More from CBS News\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say they are investigating a fire that injured one person and damaged a row of Bronx businesses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-320033","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\/320033","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=320033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}