{"id":84696,"date":"2025-12-30T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84696\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:07:07","slug":"man-70-dies-as-fire-tears-through-bronx-nycha-apartment-fdny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/84696\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 70, dies as fire tears through Bronx NYCHA apartment: FDNY"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 70-year-old man was killed early Tuesday when a fire tore through his Bronx NYCHA apartment, FDNY<\/a> officials said.<\/p>\n

The victim is the latest elderly New Yorker to die in a fire in the last couple months, a string of more than a dozen deaths<\/a> an FDNY officials has called \u201cvery, very concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n

The latest fatal fire broke out inside a fourth-floor apartment in the Eastchester Gardens<\/a> public housing complex near Burke and Hering Aves. about 3:10 a.m.<\/p>\n

The victim died at the scene. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n

Firefighters rescued several other people trapped inside the burning apartment.<\/p>\n

The fire was put out within 50 minutes. More than 60 firefighters responded to the blaze.<\/p>\n

FDNY fire marshals have been tasked with determining what sparked the fire.<\/p>\n

Eastchester Gardens in Williamsbridge<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Anthony Delmundo\/New York Daily News<\/p>\n

The Eastchester Gardens public housing in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx. (Anthony Delmundo \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The string of recent fatal fires with elderly victims has included a 95-year-old Queens grandmother who died along with her great granddaughter, an 89-year-old Bronx man who had just beaten cancer and a 90-year-old sharecropper\u2019s daughter from Georgia who dedicated her life to teaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year\u2019s percentage is higher than we\u2019ve experienced in the past,\u201d FDNY Chief Fire Marshal Dan Flynn told The News recently.<\/p>\n

Of the 59 fire fatalities across the city this year as of Dec. 19, 37 victims, or 64% of the total, were 65 or older. Last year at this time, the city had seen 73 fire fatalities with 32 victims, or less than half, 65 or older.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a very, very concerning statistic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Though he couldn\u2019t point to any particular reasons for this year\u2019s spike, Flynn explained that elderly New Yorkers are generally more vulnerable to fires.<\/p>\n

FDNY officials last month encouraged residents to hash out escape plans with their elderly relatives<\/a>, friends and neighbors in case a fire breaks out in their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 70-year-old man was killed early Tuesday when a fire tore through his Bronx NYCHA apartment, FDNY officials…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-84696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","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\/84696","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=84696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}