{"id":385321,"date":"2026-10-28T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/385321\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T11:56:08","slug":"boy-dies-4-family-members-critical-after-fire-rips-through-bronx-apartment-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/385321\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy dies, 4 family members critical after fire rips through Bronx apartment: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A boy has died and four members of his family are critical after a fire ripped through a Bronx apartment early Wednesday, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Some 130 fire and EMS personnel were dispatched to 320 Morris Ave just after 12:50 a.m., responding to a blaze that broke out in an 11th-floor apartment at the Patterson Houses complex, according to the FDNY.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two adults and three boys were rescued and they are believed to be part of the same family, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/boy-dies-fire-patterson-houses-bronxs-mott-haven\/19988726\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WABC reported<\/a>. FDNY did not confirm their relationship.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.83184258;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"41550893\" width=\"1024\" height=\"559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-bronx-ny-approximately-12-146723606.jpg\" alt=\"Firefighters and emergency personnel gather outside a brick building on Morris Avenue in the Bronx following a fire.\" class=\"wp-image-41550893\"\/>A boy has died and four members of his family are critical after a fire ripped through a Bronx apartment Wednesday. FNTV<\/p>\n<p>One boy died after being rushed to Jacobi Hospital in critical condition. Another boy is critical after being rushed to the same hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A boy was rushed to Harlem Hospital in critical condition, while a man, and 33-year-old woman were transported to Lincoln Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>A lithium-ion battery was found at the scene but it\u2019s unclear if it caused the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was under control by 2:05 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boy has died and four members of his family are critical after a fire ripped through a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,544,57,9,24,63,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-385321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-fires","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385321","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=385321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}