{"id":208754,"date":"2025-09-07T23:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208754\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:07:27","slug":"fire-at-upper-west-side-lincoln-towers-one-person-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/208754\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Upper West Side Lincoln Towers: One Person Hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250906_210737.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-96737\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250906_210737-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\"\/><\/a>Windows blown out at an apartment within Lincoln Towers. Photos by Elaine Chen<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Gus Saltonstall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One person was hospitalized after a fire broke out Saturday night on the Upper West Side, FDNY confirmed to West Side Rag.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze ignited around 8:30 p.m. within an apartment on the 15th floor of 185 West End Avenue, which is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolntowersnewyork.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln Towers apartment complex<\/a> on West End Avenue between West 66th and 70th streets, FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 80 firefighters responded to the scene and were able to get the flames under control by 9:30 p.m., FDNY said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250906_211157-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-96738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250906_211157-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a significant response Saturday night to the fire by first responders along West End Avenue, which prompted multiple people to reach out to the Rag.<\/p>\n<p>One person was taken to Mount Sinai West in connection with the fire, but FDNY did not have information as of Sunday morning on that person\u2019s identity or condition.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blaze is under investigation, FDNY added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to West Side Rag\u2019s FREE email newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/westsiderag.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=5772ebf2a0a585445f1188785&amp;id=f50755d5f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. And you can Support the Rag\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westsiderag.com\/support-west-side-rag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Windows blown out at an apartment within Lincoln Towers. Photos by Elaine Chen By Gus Saltonstall One person&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":208755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6525,114627,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-208754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fdny","10":"tag-lincoln-towers","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115165531109266556","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208754","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=208754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}