{"id":343189,"date":"2026-09-10T20:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343189\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T20:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T20:50:28","slug":"staten-island-waterfront-explosion-sparks-fire-months-after-deadly-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343189\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island waterfront explosion sparks fire months after deadly blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"v4jcs\">An explosion on a barge sparked a shipping container fire at a Staten Island waterfront yard Thursday afternoon, drawing more than 150 firefighters, EMS workers and hazmat personnel to the borough&#8217;s North Shore, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5nr8t\">City emergency management officials were also responding.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a8slh\">The FDNY received a call shortly after 2:30 p.m. reporting that a 10-foot-by-40-foot container was on fire at 3249 Richmond Terrace, between South and Arlington avenues, after an explosion on a barge, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7cedj\">Commanders transmitted a second alarm at 3:18 p.m., roughly 40 minutes into the response. The department assigned 53 units and 160 fire, EMS and hazmat personnel, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7846a\">An oil recycling and water treatment facility is located nearby. Officials with the company did not return phone calls.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6s3gt\">It is the second explosion on the Richmond Terrace waterfront in less than four months. A vessel <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/explosion-at-staten-island-shipyard-injures-16-including-13-firefighters-officials-say\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">blew up<\/a> at a dry dock at 3075 Richmond Terrace on May 22, killing a civilian worker and injuring 36 other people, according to police and fire officials. The injured included 31 firefighters, four EMS workers and one civilian. A fire marshal and a firefighter were hospitalized in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1jjfv\">Two workers were painting that vessel when it exploded for unknown reasons, the NYPD said at the time. The FDNY said crews found a fire in the basement of a metal structure at the rear of the shipping docks, transmitted a second alarm and the major explosion followed 11 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2qj8s\">The FDNY has not said what caused Thursday&#8217;s explosion or whether anyone was hurt. The department did not immediately say whether any hazardous material was released or what the barge and container were carrying.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"fk3rg\">The cause of the May explosion was still under investigation when officials last addressed it publicly.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cjql4\">This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion on a barge sparked a shipping container fire at a Staten Island waterfront yard Thursday afternoon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-343189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","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\/343189","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=343189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}