{"id":375775,"date":"2026-10-17T20:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375775\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T20:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:04:18","slug":"two-people-critically-injured-in-fire-at-manhattan-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375775\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people critically injured in fire at Manhattan apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through a Manhattan apartment building Saturday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out on the fifth floor of the building, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@40.7619881,-73.9873123,18a,75y,222.15h,116.55t\/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sTgbSolmVVpn1t2Q0UKY7Nw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.clients6.google.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-26.55095132558982%26panoid%3DTgbSolmVVpn1t2Q0UKY7Nw%26yaw%3D222.15282332957057!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MTAxMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on W. 49th St. near Eighth Ave.<\/a> in Hells Kitchen, around 11:15 a.m., an FDNY spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 80 firefighters responded, and they brought the flames under control before noon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through the fifth floor of an apartment building on W. 49th St. near Eighth Ave. in Hells Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TNY-P9-20261017-123056.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9281897\" \/>Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through the fifth floor of an apartment building on W. 49th St. near Eighth Ave. in Hells Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Two people were taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/manhattan\/nyp-weill-cornell-medical-center\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewYork-Presbyterian\/Weill Cornell Medical Center<\/a> in critical condition, and a third person who suffered a minor injury was also brought there.<\/p>\n<p>Fire marshals were still working to determine what sparked the fire.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through the fifth floor of an apartment building on W. 49th St. near Eighth Ave. in Hells Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"6000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TNY-P5-20261017-122901.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9281899\" \/>Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through the fifth floor of an apartment building on W. 49th St. near Eighth Ave. in Hells Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through the fifth floor of an apartment building on W. 49th St. near Eighth Ave. in Hells Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TNY-P23-20261017-124717.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9281915\" \/>Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through the fifth floor of an apartment building on W. 49th St. near Eighth Ave. in Hells Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through the fifth floor of an apartment building on W. 49th St. near Eighth Ave. in Hells Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TNY-P13-20261017-123244.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9281908\" \/>Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through the fifth floor of an apartment building on W. 49th St. near Eighth Ave. in Hells Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through the fifth floor of an apartment building on W. 49th St. near Eighth Ave. in Hells Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"5543\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/TNY-P19-20261017-123500.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9281909\" \/>Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through the fifth floor of an apartment building on W. 49th St. near Eighth Ave. in Hells Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were critically injured in a fire that ripped through a Manhattan apartment building Saturday morning, officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47152,127451,194,4154,75,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-375775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-apartment-building-fire","tag-critically-injured","tag-fdny","tag-hells-kitchen","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375775","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=375775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}