{"id":355289,"date":"2026-09-24T02:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355289\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T02:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T02:31:01","slug":"video-fdny-battles-bronx-blaze-that-killed-1-hurt-10-and-forced-man-on-fire-to-jump-from-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355289\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: FDNY battles Bronx blaze that killed 1, hurt 10 and forced man on fire to jump from window"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man engulfed in flames leapt from the fourth-floor window of a burning Bronx apartment where firefighters found another man dead Wednesday, horrified witnesses and FDNY<\/a> officials said.<\/p>\n

Ring camera video shared with the Daily News shows firefighters battling heavy yellow and red flames shooting from the burning fourth-floor apartment on Montgomery Ave. near W. 174th St. in Morris Heights at about 7:45 a.m.<\/p>\n

FDNY Fire Marshals have yet to determine what sparked the blaze. Neighbors said they saw someone lighting a small fire in the fourth-floor hallway about five hours before the apartment fire broke out.<\/p>\n

As the fire raged early Wednesday, witness Uneek Valentin, 46, watched from the window of her fifth-floor apartment as her neighbor made his death-defying jump to escape the flames.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard him screaming. I thought he was on the roof, but then I saw him in his apartment window. He was on fire. He was screaming in agony,\u201d said Valentin, who lives with two of her four kids in a fifth-floor apartment in the building. \u201cHe broke the window, and then there was a plume of black smoke.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe threw himself out the window.\u201d<\/p>\n

That tenant, a 31-year-old man, was taken to Jacobi Hospital in critical but stable condition, cops said.<\/p>\n

Officials could not immediately identify the fatal fire victim, who was found dead inside the smoldering apartment. Multiple neighbors said the dead man was the critically injured victim\u2019s uncle. The pair lived in the same apartment.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The man who jumped) is still alive, but his uncle was trapped in the fire,\u201d said Valentin. \u201cHe was killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FirefightersFirefighters respond to a fatal fire on Montgomery Ave. in the Bronx on Wednesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Five more civilians and four firefighters were also injured in the fire, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n

The fire remained under investigation Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cFire Marshals are investigating all angles, including if the fire is incendiary,\u201d said an FDNY spokeswoman, who confirmed reports that someone was seen lighting a fire hours earlier. \u201c(We) have been on scene interviewing witnesses and collecting video from residents and neighboring buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The blaze quickly grew to two alarms and spread to an adjacent apartment, two apartments above, and the cockloft between the top floor ceiling and the roof, FDNY officials said.<\/p>\n

Wind may have contributed to how quickly the fire spread. In total, 140 firefighters and EMS personnel responded to the scene, officials said.<\/p>\n

\"DisplacedDisplaced residents wait on the sidewalk after a fatal fire on Montgomery Ave. in the Bronx on Wednesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cI ran into my kid\u2019s room. When I opened the door to their room, it was filled with black smoke,\u201d said Valentin. \u201cI rushed to get them out. I\u2019ve been burned out of my apartment. Everything has been destroyed. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DisplacedDisplaced residents wait on the sidewalk after a fatal fire on Montgomery Ave. in the Bronx on Wednesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The Red Cross has helped 65 people left homeless by the fire find temporary housing, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man engulfed in flames leapt from the fourth-floor window of a burning Bronx apartment where firefighters found…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-355289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","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-sub-county-region","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\/355289","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=355289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}