{"id":130259,"date":"2025-08-08T23:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130259\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:20:14","slug":"man-in-critical-condition-after-fire-in-bronx-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/130259\/","title":{"rendered":"Man in critical condition after fire in Bronx apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/a-to-z-guides\/defining-patient-conditions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">critical condition<\/a> after a fire engulfed his apartment on the top floor of a Bronx apartment building, FDNY officials said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters started receiving calls about excessive smoke rising from the six-story building on Bronx Park East and Thwaites Pl. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityneighborhoods.nyc\/pelham-parkway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pelham Parkway<\/a> around 1 p.m. and arrived at the scene about five minutes later, according to officials. They found a man believed to be roughly in his 50s unconscious and unresponsive in an apartment on the top floor, in which the blaze originated, <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/fdny-1-infant-1-woman-and-1-firefighter-injured-in-tremont-fire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deputy Chief James Sangiamo<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>First responders rushed the victim to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/jacobi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacobi Hospital<\/a>, where he is currently in critical condition, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A man was found unconscious and unresponsive after a two-alarm fire inside a top-floor apartment at 2260 Bronx Park East in the Bronx on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TNY-P18-20250808-141429.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8463822\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters respond to a fire on Bronx Park East and Thwaites Pl. on Friday afternoon. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>The smoke eaters were able to \u201caggressively extinguish the fire and confined it to one apartment,\u201d bringing it under control in about an hour, Sangiamo said.<\/p>\n<p>Another civilian suffered minor smoke inhalation but refused medical attention. A firefighter also sustained a minor injury and was transported to Jacobi Hospital, according to FDNY officials.<\/p>\n<p>The fire\u2019s cause is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A man is in critical condition after a two-alarm fire inside a top-floor apartment on Bronx Park East on Friday.\" width=\"6000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/TNY-P5-20250808-140822.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8463808\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>A man is in critical condition after a two-alarm fire inside a top-floor apartment on Bronx Park East on Friday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 8, 2025 at 3:52 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in critical condition after a fire engulfed his apartment on the top floor of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":130260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1370,728,405,403,5294,5296,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-130259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-county","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114995712804398820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}