{"id":357865,"date":"2026-09-27T00:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357865\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T00:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T00:06:10","slug":"news-12-bronx-4-hurt-after-tree-collapses-at-kelly-park-playground-in-homecrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/357865\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 4 Hurt After Tree Collapses At Kelly Park Playground In Homecrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Four people are recovering in the hospital after a tree collapsed on them at Kelly Park Playground in Homecrest, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire and EMS personnel were called to East 14th Street and Avenue S at around 5:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Citizen app footage from the scene shows the tree split at its base and tangled underneath the play structure.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire officials say paramedics took the four victims to Maimonides Hospital. They all suffered minor injuries, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">High-speed winds from the Nor&#8217;easter knocked down a handful of trees across the borough throughout Saturday. One of those trees <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/falling-tree-kills-nycha-employee-in-east-new-york\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took a man&#8217;s life.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to the New York City Parks Department for a statement on the collapsing trees and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people are recovering in the hospital after a tree collapsed on them at Kelly Park Playground in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-357865","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\/357865","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=357865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}