{"id":324306,"date":"2026-08-18T20:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324306\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:25:40","slug":"mta-bus-and-fdny-vehicle-collide-in-the-bronx-injuring-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324306\/","title":{"rendered":"MTA bus and FDNY vehicle collide in the Bronx, injuring 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"i0smz\">An MTA bus and an FDNY firetruck collided in the Bronx on Tuesday, injuring 19 people, including five firefighters, according to the fire department.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"beepl\">The crash was reported at about 12:32 p.m. at Southern Boulevard and Barretto Street, in the Hunts Point section, FDNY officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4jnjf\">EMS took five firefighters and 14 civilians to area hospitals, the department said. Three other people were evaluated at the scene and refused further treatment.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7iubn\">Officials did not immediately release the conditions of those injured or describe how the crash happened. Images of the scene posted to social media show an articulated bus with a broken front window and a firetruck nearby.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2hpfk\">The MTA referred all inquiries to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"44qeg\">An NYPD spokesperson said the department had no information about the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1lev2\">This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MTA bus and an FDNY firetruck collided in the Bronx on Tuesday, injuring 19 people, including five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-324306","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\/324306","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=324306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}