{"id":343287,"date":"2026-09-10T22:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343287\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T22:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:36:08","slug":"one-dead-after-barge-explosion-caused-fire-in-staten-island-says-fdny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343287\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after barge explosion caused fire in Staten Island, says FDNY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/sifire.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">STATEN ISLAND &#8211; One person is dead and two are injured after a shipping container on a Staten Island barge caught fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   1 dead, 2 injured in barge explosion\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">FDNY reports that two firefighters were injured after an explosion on a barge in Staten Island caused a shipping container to catch on fire at around 2:30 p.m. earlier today, Sept. 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Firefighters also report that one person has died due to the incident, which took place at 3249 Richmond Terrace between South Avenue and Arlington Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A total of 160 fire, EMS and hazmat personnel responded to the fire.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">At this time, all visible fire is knocked down both in the container and the barge.\u00a0<\/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=\"\">The cause of the explosion is not known at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The identities of the deceased have not been released yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article is based on information provided by the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/organization\/fdny\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FDNY<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article STATEN ISLAND &#8211; One person is dead and two are injured after a shipping container on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,194,9,24,12,63,848],"class_list":["post-343287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fdny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343287","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=343287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}