{"id":348944,"date":"2026-09-17T03:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348944\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T03:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T03:25:02","slug":"at-least-6-people-injured-in-high-rise-apartment-building-fire-in-the-bronx-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348944\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 6 people injured in high-rise apartment building fire in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-16-012416-e1789547164900-300x168.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-1353426\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VIDEO: At least six people have been injured in a fire at a high-rise apartment building in the Bronx on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second-alarm fire started in an apartment on the second floor of a six-story building at 1773 Vyse Ave. in the Crotona Park East section just after 4:30 p.m. Flames then spread to the floors above, close to the fire escapes firefighters were using to make sure there wasn\u2019t anyone trapped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere were two people coming down the fire escape. That was the part that scared me the most,\u201d said neighbor Hector Vargas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neighbors say a woman lives in the apartment where the fire started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lady who lives there that shouldn\u2019t be living there by herself,\u201d said Luis Rodriguez, who lives in the building. \u201cShe needs a home health attendant 24\/7 and sadly the reason why it happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neighbors say the woman has a part-time aide who was not there, and that she likes to burn candles.<\/p>\n<p>WABC-TV ABC 7 New York City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: At least six people have been injured in a fire at a high-rise apartment building in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,5855,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-348944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mid-atlantic-region","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\/348944","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=348944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}