{"id":3357,"date":"2025-10-15T12:40:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3357\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:40:35","slug":"bronx-explosion-displaces-dozens-city-investigating-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3357\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx explosion displaces dozens; city investigating cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, an explosion <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2025\/10\/01\/fdny-responding-to-partial-building-collapse-at-bronx-nycha-complex\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ripped through part of a public housing building<\/a> in the south Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first boom sounded like construction,\u201d resident Kiyami Fields said. \u201cThe second one was very, very loud and shook the whole entire building. I heard people screaming. It was very terrifying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, an explosion ripped through part of a public housing building in the south Bronx<br \/>\n<br \/>Crews said the chimney shaft collapsed, damaging the F and G apartments at NYCHA\u2019s Mitchel Houses in Mott Haven<br \/>\n<br \/>Dozens of families have been displaced. For those allowed back inside, they\u2019re now without water, heat or gas<br \/>\n<br \/>According to officials, one theory points to the building\u2019s heating system as the cause, but they caution it\u2019s too early to know for sure<\/p>\n<p>Crews said the chimney shaft collapsed, damaging the F and G apartments at NYCHA\u2019s Mitchel Houses in Mott Haven.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of families have been displaced. For those allowed back inside, they\u2019re now without water, heat or gas.<\/p>\n<p>NY1 spoke one-on-one with Emergency Management Commissioner Zach Iscol, who\u2019s leading the city\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[We\u2019re] very, very lucky nobody was hurt. Our primary objective right now is just making sure everybody\u2019s safe. We\u2019re trying to get people back into the building. Most of the units are now reoccupied,\u201d Iscol said.<\/p>\n<p>But even as inspections continue, the investigation is still underway.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said one theory points to the building\u2019s heating system, but they caution it\u2019s too early to know for sure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to shut off [the gas], which impacted the entire Mitchel Houses complex,\u201d Iscol said. \u201cSo, we\u2019re bringing in a mobile boiler. We have ConEd that\u2019s working on restoring gas. That\u2019s probably going to take a couple of days to get heat, hot water and gas back up and running for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fields said there\u2019s been years of warning signs. The tenant said she lives directly above the boiler room and has reported the smell of gas to NYCHA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to come back here. I just want to get my stuff in there. I would rather they transferred me to another unit,\u201d Fields said.<\/p>\n<p>Standing beside her daughter, Renea Fields said it\u2019s a miracle no one was injured, or worse, killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thank God. For the old mighty God that protected everybody, every single family in that building,\u201d Fields said.<\/p>\n<p>Street closures are expected for weeks, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Families said the bigger question is when they\u2019ll feel safe sleeping in their homes again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, an explosion ripped through part of a public housing building in the south Bronx. \u201cThe first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[387,25,128,388,9,24,12,63,308,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-3357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-app-public-safety","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-bronx","11":"tag-louis-finley","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-public-safety","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","19":"tag-the-bronx-news","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357","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=3357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}