{"id":76044,"date":"2025-12-19T22:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76044\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:39:11","slug":"video-witness-describes-chaos-amid-bronx-building-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76044\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Witness describes chaos amid Bronx building fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/admin-ajax-42-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-640195\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The fire broke out at a one-story taxpayer building \u2014 a small, cheaply built building to cover the owner\u2019s property taxes \u2014 on Prospect Avenue in Longwood around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>It was fully involved in flames by the time crews arrived. It chewed through a bodega, fruit shop and dollar store, then jumped to the roof and second floor of an adjacent six-story apartment building, which was evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>One resident was treated at the scene for a minor injury, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, more than 200 fire and EMS personnel responded.<\/p>\n<p>The building appeared to be part of a row of businesses, some of which were damaged in the fire.<\/p>\n<p>WNBC-TV NBC 4 New York City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive fire tore through a row of stores and an apartment building in the Bronx overnight, bubbling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,5855,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-76044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mid-atlantic-region","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\/76044","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=76044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}