{"id":50,"date":"2025-10-13T21:18:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T21:18:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T21:18:27","slug":"nyc-woman-killed-by-airborne-solar-panel-during-noreaster-storm-officials-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/50\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC woman killed by airborne solar panel during nor&#8217;easter storm, officials report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A New York City woman was struck and killed by a solar panel during the nor&#8217;easter storm on Oct. 13.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/nyc-woman-killed-by-solar-panel-noreaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/nyc-woman-killed-by-solar-panel-noreaster\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report<\/a> from CBS News. The report noted that, according to the Department of Buildings, a solar panel from a carport flew about 20 feet through the air before it struck the 76-year-old woman. She was taken to the hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Peak wind gusts were unofficially calculated around 42 mph in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Kathy Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/cnycentral.com\/news\/local\/hochul-declares-state-of-emergency-during-ongoing-coastal-storm-in-parts-of-ny#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cnycentral.com\/news\/local\/hochul-declares-state-of-emergency-during-ongoing-coastal-storm-in-parts-of-ny#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">declared a State of Emergency<\/a> on Sunday for Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk and Westchester Counties as the coastal storm brushed the eastern United States.<\/p>\n<p>The State of Emergency is scheduled to expire at 6 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 A New York City woman was struck and killed by a solar panel during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32,34,9,24,11,10,29,28,31,33,30],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-emergency","tag-governor-hochul","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-noreaster","tag-solar-panel","tag-storm","tag-wind-gusts","tag-woman-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}