{"id":375937,"date":"2026-10-18T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375937\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T00:20:09","slug":"electrical-fire-in-nyc-theater-district-apartment-building-kills-1-injures-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/375937\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrical fire in NYC Theater District apartment building kills 1, injures 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An electrical fire in a building in the Theater District killed one man and left a second victim in stable condition Saturday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out on the top floor of a five-story apartment building on West 49th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues in Hell\u2019s Kitchen around 11:15 a.m., officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-nine FDNY and EMS personnel responded to the blaze, which fire marshals deemed accidential, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7578125;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41385479\" width=\"447\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/145461308.jpg\" alt=\"Facade of a brownstone building with fire escapes.\" class=\"wp-image-41385479\"\/>A man was killed when a brownstone caught fire in Midtown, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Two civilians were rescued from the fire and rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition. One of them died and the other was later upgraded to stable condition, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the person who died wasn\u2019t immediately released.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.60753532;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41385493\" width=\"948\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/photo-gary-hershorn-getty-images-145461307.jpg\" alt=\"An FDNY Ladder Company 24 fire truck turns onto 6th Avenue in New York City.\" class=\"wp-image-41385493\"\/>Nearly 80 firefighters responded to the scene of the electrical fire, officials said. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The building was constructed in the early 1900\u2019s, according to online reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An electrical fire in a building in the Theater District killed one man and left a second victim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[194,544,4154,57,360,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-375937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-fdny","tag-fires","tag-hells-kitchen","tag-metro","tag-midtown","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375937","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=375937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}