{"id":379834,"date":"2026-10-22T16:44:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379834\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:44:42","slug":"news-12-bronx-18-hurt-including-2-firefighters-in-belmont-apartment-building-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/379834\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 18 Hurt Including 2 Firefighters In Belmont Apartment Building Blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Eighteen people were hurt, including two firefighters, during an apartment building fire in the Belmont section of the Bronx, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The fire erupted on the second-floor of 2174 Crotona Ave. before 7:45 a.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY says the blaze extended into other areas of the building and escalated to a second alarm around seven minutes later.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to fire officials, 141 fire and EMS personnel responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Citizen app footage shows orange flames shooting from the building as black smoke billowed into the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire crews controlled the blaze at around 8:20 a.m., according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say EMS treated the eighteen victims on scene. They all suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Red Cross says it responded to the scene and is assisting impacted residents.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The cause of the fire was not immediately known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eighteen people were hurt, including two firefighters, during an apartment building fire in the Belmont section of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-379834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","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\/379834","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=379834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}