{"id":327713,"date":"2026-08-23T06:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327713\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T06:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:18:08","slug":"fdny-and-nypd-battle-it-out-during-hot-dog-eating-contest-on-staten-island-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327713\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY and NYPD battle it out during hot dog eating contest on Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByEyewitness News  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/origin-wabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, August 23, 2026 3:30AM<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY and NYPD competed in a hot dog eating contest on Staten Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">STATEN ISLAND (WABC) &#8212; There&#8217;s another hot dog eating contest in town!<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The FDNY and NYPD battled on Saturday during the inaugural Staten Island Hot Dog Eating contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They competed against each other in teams of three. The contest was a tie, with each team eating 15 of the franks in ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There was also a team from the supermarket where the contest took place. They ate 21 hot dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByEyewitness News Sunday, August 23, 2026 3:30AM The FDNY and NYPD competed in a hot dog eating contest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[123275,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-327713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-123275","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327713","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=327713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}