{"id":332894,"date":"2026-08-29T22:52:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T22:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332894\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T22:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T22:52:52","slug":"boat-catches-fire-off-city-island-3-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332894\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat catches fire off City Island, 3 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788043972_43_default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-0c9d18f6=\"\"\/>       <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">BRONX &#8211; A boat burst into flames off City Island in the Bronx on Saturday, injuring three people.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The fire broke out shortly before 2 p.m. FDNY firefighters were called out to Bridge Street, between Minnieford and City Island avenues.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Video from the Citizen app showed the docked, 30-foot boat engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">More than six dozen firefighters and paramedics responded to the scene. Crews were able to put the fire out in just over an hour.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Three people were taken to local hospitals with minor injuries, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It&#8217;s not yet clear what caused the boat to catch fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story is from the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/bronx\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRONX &#8211; A boat burst into flames off City Island in the Bronx on Saturday, injuring three people.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,12,56,63,129,131,130,618],"class_list":["post-332894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332894","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=332894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}