2170 Webster Avenue<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0in Fordham on Monday morning.\u00a0Units were able to remove a cat from the building.<\/p>\nUnits from the 7th Division began receiving calls for the fire at 11:40 a.m. Engine Company 48 and Ladder Company 56 arrived to smoke showing from the one story building.
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About 65 firefighters from 12 units worked to bring the blaze under control. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell\n<\/p>\n
Some 65 firefighters from 12 units used three hoselines to knock down the main body of fire, the smoke condition from the fire also impacted a one story auto body show next door.\u00a0\u00a0Rays of light shined through the smoke as firefighters walked in and out of the building and truck companies cut holes in the roof.<\/p>\n
Searches throughout the buildings yielded negative results for trapped workers.
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Firefighters cut holes in the roof of an auto body shop on Webster Avenue as they worked to contain a fire Monday morning. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell\n<\/p>\n
Radio traffic over the radios indicated lithium ion batteries were found in the structure but not determined to be the cause of the fires.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0\u00a0FDNY\u2019s Fire Marshals Office will determine the cause and origin of the fire. The fire was placed under control by Division 7 at 12:15 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters at the scene of a building fire at 2170 Webster Avenue on Monday morning. Photo by Lloyd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[138710,138711,128,9376,138712,194,7438,15308,138713,5139,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-377121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-2170-webster-avenue","tag-auto-body-shop","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-fire","tag-engine-company-48","tag-fdny","tag-firefighter","tag-fordham","tag-ladder-company-56","tag-lithium-ion-batteries","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\/377121","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=377121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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