{"id":324255,"date":"2026-08-18T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324255\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T19:22:09","slug":"19-treated-after-fdny-truck-mta-bus-collide-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324255\/","title":{"rendered":"19 treated after FDNY truck, MTA bus collide in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency responders are on the scene in the Bronx for a collision involving an MTA bus and an FDNY fire truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some 19 people, including five firefighters, were taken to the hospital to be treated for minor injuries, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>It happened at 12:32 p.m. Tuesday at Southern Boulevard and Barretto Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/fdny-bus-crash-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"fdny-bus-crash-1.jpg \" height=\"324\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Damage to the front window of an MTA bus after a collision with an FDNY vehicle in the Bronx on Aug. 18, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Citizen.com<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video captures the bus traveling along Southern Boulevard when the fire truck enters the intersection from Barretto Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A witness said the bus had the right of way with the green light when the FDNY vehicle came into the intersection &#8220;going at a high speed&#8221; and did not have its lights and siren on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The impact &#8211; it just crashed. The impact was high. The bus was full, the bus was full of people,&#8221; witness Jumari Lantigua said. &#8220;I&#8217;m thankful I didn&#8217;t take it because I was just about to hop on it with my son, and my son decided, no, let&#8217;s just walk mommy. And I&#8217;m happy that he said that, because look at what happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene showed the bus with some damage to its windshield.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check back soon for more on this developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency responders are on the scene in the Bronx for a collision involving an MTA bus and an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,194,141,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-324255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-fdny","tag-mta","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\/324255","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=324255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}