{"id":32676,"date":"2025-11-08T01:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32676\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T01:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:03:07","slug":"fdny-firefighter-from-new-city-recovering-from-burns-following-massive-bronx-car-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/32676\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY firefighter from New City recovering from burns following massive Bronx car explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colleagues and friends of a New York City firefighter from Rockland County who was injured while responding to this week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/5-firefighters-hospitalized-after-car-fire-explosion-in-longwood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">massive car fire in the Bronx<\/a> were breathing easier Friday after learning more about his condition.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighter Dan Hanlon, of New City, is recovering from second-degree burns on his face from when he responded to the car blast Tuesday in Longwood.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said someone flicked a lit cigarette, causing a trash fire, which then spread to a car which exploded a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>Hanlon just graduated from the FDNY academy last month.<\/p>\n<p>He also still volunteers with the New City Ambulance Corps.<\/p>\n<p>Ambulance Corps EMT Binnie Baumgarten often rides with Hanlon on EMS calls.<\/p>\n<p>He found out Tuesday morning that Hanlon is going to fully recover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t find out exactly what happened until I started seeing people [talking] online about it,&#8221; Baumgarten said.<\/p>\n<p>Hanlon&#8217;s colleagues at the ambulance corps admire him not just for moving up the ranks of first responders but also because he still chooses to help out his hometown as a volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>Baumgarten said ambulance corps leaders have been checking in on Hanlon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve been speaking with him and stuff like that,&#8221; Baumgarten said, &#8220;making sure he&#8217;s OK and obviously giving him whatever he needs to get better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A family member told News 12 Hanlon has been released from the hospital and has an upcoming appointment to determine whether he will need skin grafts.<\/p>\n<p>Baumgarten looks forward to riding with Hanlon again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s a very strong guy,&#8221; Baumgarten said. &#8220;He wants to just get back out there, help the community and everything like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colleagues and friends of a New York City firefighter from Rockland County who was injured while responding to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,11204,9,24,63,9331,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-32676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-car-fire","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-rockland-county","14":"tag-the-bronx","15":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","16":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32676","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=32676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}