{"id":321474,"date":"2026-08-14T18:17:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321474\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:17:01","slug":"news-12-bronx-1-person-hurt-after-two-alarm-fire-tears-through-jerome-avenue-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321474\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 1 Person Hurt After Two Alarm Fire Tears Through Jerome Avenue Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD confirms they are investigating Tuesday&#8217;s fire that damaged businesses in Fordham as possible arson.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fire seriously injured a worker who was inside at the time.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fire broke out shortly after 10 p.m. on East 183rd Street between Jerome and Davidson avenues, sending flames through a strip of stores.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY says a 33-year-old man working inside one of the businesses suffered severe burns to his face and body. He was taken to the hospital and is stable.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A witness who is also the victim\u2019s cousin told News 12 he saw two men throw what appeared to be a Molotov cocktail into one of the stores.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I saw from the moment the cocktail hit the floor and exploded,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD\u2019s Crime Scene Unit responded to the scene as investigators worked to determine what sparked the fire.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD says fire marshals are now taking the lead in the arson investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Several businesses were damaged and are now boarded up.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">PREVIOUS COVERAGE:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NYPD confirms they are investigating Tuesday&#8217;s fire that damaged businesses in Fordham as possible arson. The fire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-321474","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\/321474","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=321474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}