{"id":375677,"date":"2026-10-17T16:52:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375677\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T16:52:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T16:52:47","slug":"2-critically-hurt-in-manhattan-apartment-building-fire-fdny-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375677\/","title":{"rendered":"2 critically hurt in Manhattan apartment building fire, FDNY says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people have been critically hurt in an apartment building fire in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>New York City fire officials said they received a call just before 11:15 a.m. Saturday reporting a fire on the top floor of a building on West 49th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues in Midtown.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of fire and EMS personnel responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Two civilians were rescued and taken to a local hospital in critical condition, the FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters got the blaze under control just before noon, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The extent of the damage is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with CBS News New York for the latest on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been critically hurt in an apartment building fire in Manhattan. New York City fire officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,360,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-375677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-midtown","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375677","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=375677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}