{"id":343451,"date":"2026-09-11T01:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343451\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:34:21","slug":"man-killed-in-barge-explosion-at-staten-island-dock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343451\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in barge explosion at Staten Island dock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion erupted on a barge on Staten Island, killing one man and\u00a0igniting a blaze that injured two firefighters, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The blast occurred on the barge docked on Richmond Terrace near South Ave. in Mariners Harbor around 2:37 p.m., according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p>The blast ignited a blaze on the barge, named Casablanca, which spread to a shipping container on land that was packed with petroleum.<\/p>\n<p>More than 160 FDNY personnel rushed to the scene to extinguish the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The body of an unidentified man killed in the explosion was found on the barge, cops said. Two firefighters also suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Emergency workers are pictured after an explosion on a barge on Staten Island, killing one man and\u00a0igniting a blaze that injured two firefighters, at the yard on Richmond Terrace near South Ave. in Mariners Harbor Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (Rose Abuin \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"4032\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_1393.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9218845\" \/>Emergency workers are pictured after an explosion on a barge on Staten Island, killing one man and\u00a0igniting a blaze that injured two firefighters, at the yard on Richmond Terrace near South Ave. in Mariners Harbor Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (Rose Abuin \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>An FDNY hazmat team remained on scene Thursday evening securing petroleum from the fire-damaged shipping container.<\/p>\n<p>The barge explosion follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/05\/22\/major-explosion-staten-island-dockyard-injures-firefighters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another blast at a Mariner Harbor dry dock<\/a> located just a few blocks away on May 22.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responding to reports of two workers trapped in a confined space at that shipyard found a fire burning in the basement of a 150-foot-by-150-foot metal structure at the rear of the facility, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Emergency workers are pictured after an explosion on a barge on Staten Island, killing one man and\u00a0igniting a blaze that injured two firefighters, at the yard on Richmond Terrace near South Ave. in Mariners Harbor Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (Rose Abuin \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"5712\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_1392.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9218846\" \/>Emergency workers are pictured after an explosion on a barge on Staten Island, killing one man and\u00a0igniting a blaze that injured two firefighters, at the yard on Richmond Terrace near South Ave. in Mariners Harbor Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (Rose Abuin \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>About 50 minutes after that blaze broke out, the building was suddenly rocked by a thunderous explosion. The blast caused \u201cserious injuries to multiple FDNY members,\u201d FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>That blast left one man dead and 36 injured, including two firefighters with serious injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion erupted on a barge on Staten Island, killing one man and\u00a0igniting a blaze that injured two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,134,136,135,265],"class_list":["post-343451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343451","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=343451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}