{"id":37907,"date":"2025-11-13T02:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/37907\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:37:08","slug":"woman-74-killed-7-others-injured-in-afternoon-blaze-at-nyc-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/37907\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 74, killed, 7 others injured in afternoon blaze at NYC apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 74-year-old woman was killed and seven others were hurt in a ravaging blaze that tore through an Upper East Side apartment building Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out on the top floor of a five-story apartment building on East 81st Street between First and York Avenue in Yorkville around 12:30 p.m., according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.44144144;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37651595\" width=\"800\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eight-people-including-three-firefighters-115289846.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters and emergency vehicles responding to an apartment fire in a city.\" class=\"wp-image-37651595\"  \/>A 74-year-old woman was killed, and multiple other civilians and firefighters were hurt in a blaze inside an Upper East Side building on Wednesday afternoon. Citizen<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.51515152;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37651605\" width=\"800\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eight-people-including-three-firefighters-115289848.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters on an extended ladder and building roof during an Upper East Side apartment fire.\" class=\"wp-image-37651605\"  \/>The 74-year-old woman was rushed by EMS to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she was later pronounced dead. Citizen<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters discovered an wounded, unidentified 74-year-old woman inside the building. She was rushed by EMS to Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>She was later pronounced dead, police said. The city\u2019s medical examiner will determine the cause of her death.<\/p>\n<p>Four other civilians and three firefighters were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries, authorities added. <\/p>\n<p>The deadly blaze was under control by 1:22 p.m., according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>The cause and origin of the fire remain under investigation, officials added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 74-year-old woman was killed and seven others were hurt in a ravaging blaze that tore through an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1015,194,544,57,9,56,63,65,64,466,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-37907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-deaths","9":"tag-fdny","10":"tag-fires","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-upper-east-side","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37907","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=37907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}