{"id":85293,"date":"2025-12-31T06:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85293\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T06:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T06:43:09","slug":"multiple-cars-destroyed-after-catching-fire-in-van-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85293\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple cars destroyed after catching fire in Van Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple cars were destroyed in Van Nest Tuesday evening in a fire.<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY says crews responded to 2009 Cruger Ave. just after 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters battled flames inside two vehicles. The fire was extinguished in just under an hour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We heard an explosion. Boom. And then we heard it again. Boom. And then that&#8217;s when I heard the firefighters come. And then that&#8217;s when I decided to come see,\u201d said Alex Pena, an owner of one of the cars. \u201cWhen I came, this car was burst into flames, and it was burning the back of this other car over here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fire officials say no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple cars were destroyed in Van Nest Tuesday evening in a fire. The FDNY says crews responded to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,11204,194,9,24,63,129,131,130,15281],"class_list":{"0":"post-85293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-car-fire","10":"tag-fdny","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-the-bronx","15":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","16":"tag-the-bronx-news","17":"tag-van-nest"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85293","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=85293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}