{"id":90028,"date":"2026-01-05T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90028\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:17:08","slug":"dead-man-found-inside-burning-dumpster-near-queens-strip-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90028\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead man found inside burning dumpster near Queens strip mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dead man was found inside a burning dumpster in Queens Monday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters responded to a 6:55 a.m. 911 call about a fire next to a strip mall on North Conduit Ave. near Springfield Blvd., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/fdny\/index.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FDNY<\/a> officials said.<\/p>\n<p>They quickly put out the blaze in the dumpter and found the man dead inside the trash receptacle.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if the man was the victim of a crime, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops are working to identify the man and the city Medical Examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine how he died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dead man was found inside a burning dumpster in Queens Monday morning, authorities said. Firefighters responded to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-90028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","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-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90028","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=90028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}