{"id":85328,"date":"2025-12-31T08:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85328\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:43:08","slug":"70-year-old-man-killed-in-fire-at-nycha-apartment-building-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85328\/","title":{"rendered":"70-year-old man killed in fire at NYCHA apartment building in the Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-30-070222-e1767106993668-300x168.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-653010\" 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>VIDEO: A elderly man lost his life after an apartment fire broke out in the Allerton section of the Bronx Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters got numerous calls for people trapped in their apartments by smoke at the city-run Eastchester Gardens just before 3:15 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>12 units with 60 fire and EMS personnel arrived on scene. Fire crews were met by heavy smoke and fire streaming out of an apartment window.<\/p>\n<p>A 70-year-old man was found in the rear of a fourth-floor apartment and pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>He is now the 14th person age 65 or older to die in a fire since November 9.<\/p>\n<p>A troubling pattern over the past two months shows a notable increase in older New Yorkers dying in fires.<\/p>\n<p>Of the at least 60 people who have died in fires so far the year, 38 of them were 65 years or older \u2014 about 63%<\/p>\n<p>WABC-TV ABC 7 New York City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: A elderly man lost his life after an apartment fire broke out in the Allerton section of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85329,"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-85328","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\/85328","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=85328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}