{"id":75716,"date":"2025-12-19T17:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75716\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T17:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T17:40:10","slug":"staten-island-storm-damage-downed-wires-close-bard-avenue-in-west-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/75716\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island storm damage: Downed wires close Bard Avenue in West Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UDPAJ56FPZDT5A5H44MTUN2Y3Y\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Authorities are responding to a tree, pole and wires down during the rainstorm in West Brighton on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UB3M5NX6ZZGJFAUATZCBUMIEHU\">Bard Avenue is closed at Forest Avenue during the emergency response to the incident at Forest and Delafield Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IBP2GTDF2JGQTERYNLS3QUVFH4\">The incident was reported at 10:39 a.m. and brought under control less than hour later, at 11:33 a.m. No injuries were reported, according to a spokesperson for the FDNY and EMS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YSMXAVQZQFH2NEZH3CBO32DJXM\">A tree became uprooted and fell to the ground. A utility pole also is cracked near its base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"3KUZ5SV7TNCAVOERJ2DRF7MX5I\">Wires are dangling precariously over the sidewalk and street. They also are tangled in the tree and pole.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4H6J55TI6BE2BM7PFIMZEK5VJY\">Con Edison workers are on scene.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wires down in West Brighton\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HH5UIK45WVEDBHYUI2T6EEPIPQ.jpeg\"  \/>A tree, utility pole and wires fall down at Bard and Delafield avenues in West Brighton on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025.(Advance\/SILive.com | Jan Somma-Hammel)<img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wires down in West Brighton\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/EV5CFWKN3FCERO4FDN6QY5L2DQ.jpeg\"  \/>A tree, utility pole and wires fall down at Bard and Delafield avenues in West Brighton on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025.(Advance\/SILive.com | Jan Somma-Hammel)<img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wires down in West Brighton\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/73WEANASDVAOVMUMMFFHTQRO2I.jpeg\"  \/>A tree, utility pole and wires fall down at Bard and Delafield avenues in West Brighton on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025.(Advance\/SILive.com | Jan Somma-Hammel)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Authorities are responding to a tree, pole and wires down during the rainstorm in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-75716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75716","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=75716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}