{"id":357188,"date":"2026-09-25T23:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357188\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:54:27","slug":"stovetop-fire-causes-135000-in-damage-at-manhattan-apartment-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357188\/","title":{"rendered":"Stovetop fire causes $135,000 in damage at Manhattan apartment complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"212\">A stovetop fire caused an estimated $135,000 in damage and displaced a family of four Thursday morning at a Manhattan apartment complex.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"214\" data-end=\"405\">The Manhattan Fire Department responded at about 10:51 a.m. to Woodway Apartments, 2421 Woodway Drive, where firefighters found smoke coming from the second floor of the three-story building.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"407\" data-end=\"532\">Crews located and quickly extinguished the fire and searched the apartment. The fire was declared under control just after 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"534\" data-end=\"695\">No injuries to people or pets were reported. The apartment\u2019s residents were not home when the fire began. Maintenance personnel spotted the smoke and called 911.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"697\" data-end=\"883\">A fire department investigator determined the fire was accidental and originated on a stovetop. Damage was estimated at $125,000 to the structure and $10,000 to the apartment\u2019s contents.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"885\" data-end=\"1017\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The unit was declared uninhabitable, displacing two adults and two children. The American Red Cross responded to provide assistance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" data-start=\"885\" data-end=\"1017\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-450634 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790380467_188_unnamed-1.jpg\"  data-max-width=\"1920\" data- data-eio-rwidth=\"1920\" data-eio-rheight=\"1440\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-450634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790380467_188_unnamed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\"   data-eio=\"l\"\/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-450633 lazyload\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790380467_758_unnamed-2.jpg\"  data-max-width=\"1920\" data- data-eio-rwidth=\"1920\" data-eio-rheight=\"1440\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-450633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790380467_758_unnamed-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\"   data-eio=\"l\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stovetop fire caused an estimated $135,000 in damage and displaced a family of four Thursday morning at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-357188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357188","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=357188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}