A massive fire tore through a row of stores and an apartment building in the Bronx overnight, bubbling a virtual inferno into the dark sky but causing no serious injuries.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out at a one-story taxpayer building — a small, cheaply built building to cover the owner’s property taxes — on Prospect Avenue in Longwood around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the FDNY. <\/p>\n
It was fully involved in flames by the time crews arrived. Ultimately, more than 200 fire and EMS personnel responded. The FDNY says one civilian was evaluated at the scene for a minor injury.<\/p>\n
The FDNY posted a dramatic aerial photo of the scene on X.<\/p>\n
The building appeared to be part of a row of businesses, some of which were damaged in the fire. <\/p>\n
Witnesses described the chaos.<\/p>\n
“You see people just running from all over,” recounted Maylani Napoles. “You see people in the building, waving their hands out the window, trying to catch somebody’s attention — everything.” <\/p>\n
The cause of the fire is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive fire tore through a row of stores and an apartment building in the Bronx overnight, bubbling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,194,544,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-75453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-fdny","tag-fires","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\/75453","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=75453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}