{"id":345271,"date":"2026-09-12T22:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345271\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T22:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:58:25","slug":"news-12-bronx-some-families-to-be-allowed-back-into-units-a-month-after-dekalb-avenue-fire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345271\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Some Families To Be Allowed Back Into Units A Month After Dekalb Avenue Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Some residents forced from their homes by last month\u2019s Bronx apartment building fire may soon be allowed back into their apartments.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city&#8217;s Department of Buildings says it recently gained access to the property at 34-33 DeKalb Avenue and is recommending that the vacate order be lifted for some units.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Tenants who need to retrieve belongings are being advised to contact their landlord. Officials say the building owner is actively working to address the remaining safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\"><a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/4-injured-as-fire-rips-through-norwood-building\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As previously reported<\/a>, the four-alarm fire happened in Norwood on Aug. 20.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The American Red Cross previously stated that 159 people &#8211; 130 adults and 29 children as well as 35 pets from 60 households &#8211; registered for emergency assistance.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Firefighters also faced challenges battling the blaze because two vehicles were blocking nearby fire hydrants.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">More than 200 FDNY and EMS personnel responded to the scene. Two firefighters and two civilians suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some residents forced from their homes by last month\u2019s Bronx apartment building fire may soon be allowed back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-345271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345271","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=345271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}