{"id":358643,"date":"2026-09-28T10:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358643\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:26:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-firefighters-battle-massive-flames-at-bay-shore-scrapyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/358643\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Firefighters Battle Massive Flames At Bay Shore Scrapyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Multiple local fire departments fought strong nor\u2019easter winds when battling a blaze at a scrapyard in Suffolk County Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Bay Shore Fire Department was first alerted to the report of multiple vehicles on fire around 12:45 p.m. at NJC Scrap Metal Recycling, located on Moffitt Boulevard in Bay Shore.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Minutes later, Chief of Department, John Ippolito Jr., was advised that a large column of smoke was visible from Sunrise Highway and Brook Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Once on scene, crews forced entry onto the property and began an aggressive attack with hand lines while additional units set up master stream operations, fire officials say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The volunteer firefighters worked for over three hours to contain the wind-driven flames, amid the continued nor\u2019easter rain.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fire was placed under control at approximately 3:30 p.m. with no injuries reported, according to the Bay Shore Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">There were delays on the LIRR Montauk branch as a result, with the location being adjacent to the train tracks. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The cause of the blaze is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple local fire departments fought strong nor\u2019easter winds when battling a blaze at a scrapyard in Suffolk County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-358643","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\/358643","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=358643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}