{"id":344668,"date":"2026-09-12T03:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344668\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T03:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:23:34","slug":"staten-island-fire-update-massive-blaze-at-rector-street-scary-videos-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/344668\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island fire update: Massive blaze at Rector Street &#038; Castleton Avenue; scary videos emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content\">A massive fire was reported at Rector Street &amp; Castleton Avenue in Staten Island, New York State, on September 11. NYC&#8217;s official emergency notification system issued an alert saying it was a three alarm fire. They warned people to avoid smoke and keep windows closed.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/photo-1634468413956-831adf9d5a06_1789182765869_910c37f4-ab36-43aa-bfd9-a8cb367392aa_1789182775818_bf.jpeg\" alt=\"A huge fire was reported in Staten Island, New York State. Image for representational purposes. (Unsplash)\" title=\"A huge fire was reported in Staten Island, New York State. Image for representational purposes. (Unsplash)\" width=\"360\" height=\"202\" loading=\"eager\"\/>A huge fire was reported in Staten Island, New York State. Image for representational purposes. (Unsplash)<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">\u201cThree Alarm Fire: Rector Street &amp; Castleton Avenue, Staten Island. Expect smoke &amp; traffic delays in the area. People nearby should avoid smoke and close windows,\u201d the alert <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NotifyNYC\/status\/2098599853030818073?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"backlink\" data-vars-page-type=\"story\" data-vars-link-type=\"Manual\" data-vars-anchor-text=\"read\">read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">Meanwhile, scary videos were shared online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content \">(This is a developing story)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive fire was reported at Rector Street &amp; Castleton Avenue in Staten Island, New York State, on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[94206,9,24,63,134,94201,129186,129185,129183,136,135,129184],"class_list":["post-344668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-fdny-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-fire","tag-staten-island-fire-rector-street-castleton-avenue","tag-staten-island-fire-today-videos","tag-staten-island-fire-updat","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-staten-island-three-alarm-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344668","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=344668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}