{"id":374893,"date":"2026-10-16T15:48:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374893\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:48:16","slug":"fdny-takes-on-two-alarm-blaze-at-vacant-west-farms-commercial-building-bronx-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374893\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY takes on two-alarm blaze at vacant West Farms commercial building \u2013 Bronx Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC_3512.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Multiple Tower Ladders knocked down the main body of fire at 1717 West Farms Road on Thursday morning.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Tower Ladders knocked down the main body of fire at 1717 West Farms Road on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters in the West Farms section of the Bronx battled a two-alarm fire\u00a0on Thursday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>Fire Department personnel arrived at 1717 West Farms Rd. shortly after 1:40 a.m. on Oct. 15. Fire personnel arrived to find heavy smoke and fire showing from the second floor and through the roof of a two-story vacant commercial building.<\/p>\n<p>Units quickly deployed multiple hose lines to be put into operation by the orders of the 18th Battalion. A little while later, FDNY personnel consisting of 24 units and over a hundred firefighters were ordered out of the building and into a defensive operation, raising the alert to a second-alarm fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-149739\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC_2247.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighers arrived to smoke and flames showing from the second floor of a two story commercial bullding at 1717 West Farms Road on Thursday morning.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>Firefighers arrived to smoke and flames showing from the second floor of a two story commercial bullding at 1717 West Farms Road on Thursday morning.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-149740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC_3500.jpg\" alt=\"A hundred firefighters battled a two alarm fire at 1717 West Farms Road in the Bronx on Thursday, October 15.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\"  \/>A hundred firefighters battled a two alarm fire at 1717 West Farms Road in the Bronx on Thursday, October 15.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-149742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC_3520.jpg\" alt=\"FDNY Fire Marshals will investigate the cause and origin of the two alarm fire at 1717 West Farms Road.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\"  \/>FDNY Fire Marshals will investigate the cause and origin of the two alarm fire at 1717 West Farms Road.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI smelled smoke and saw a glow coming from the roof and window,\u201d said Patrick Sullivan, a witness to the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Members used four tower ladders to knock down the main body of fire. The fire was placed under control at 2:55 a.m., leaving smoke-stained brick covered in dark ash.\n<\/p>\n<p>Searches throughout the building were negative. The FDNY Fire Marshal\u2019s Office is investigating the cause and origin of the blaze.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-149738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC_2242.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighers arrived to smoke and flames showing from the second floor of a two story commercial bullding at 1717 West Farms Road on Thursday morning.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>Firefighers arrived to smoke and flames showing from the second floor of a two story commercial bullding at 1717 West Farms Road on Thursday morning.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-149741\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC_3516.jpg\" alt=\"FDNY Fire Marshals will investigate the cause and origin of the two alarm fire at 1717 West Farms Road.\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\"  \/>FDNY Fire Marshals will investigate the cause and origin of the two alarm fire at 1717 West Farms Road.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-149743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/DSC_3504.jpg\" alt=\"Engine Company 46 supplied a tower ladder\" width=\"1200\" height=\"674\"  \/>Engine Company 46 supplied a tower ladderPhoto by Lloyd Mitchell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple Tower Ladders knocked down the main body of fire at 1717 West Farms Road on Thursday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[137937,128,194,545,9,24,63,129,131,130,137938],"class_list":["post-374893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-1717-west-farms-rd","tag-bronx","tag-fdny","tag-fire","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-two-alarm-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374893","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=374893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}