{"id":22639,"date":"2025-06-28T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/22639\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T19:56:08","slug":"man-85-killed-after-massive-fire-tears-through-bronx-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/22639\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 85, killed, after massive fire tears through Bronx apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 85-year-old man was killed and another man was fighting for his life after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/06\/22\/brooklyn-basement-fire-kills-retired-mta-worker-neighbors-tried-to-save\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire tore<\/a> through a Bronx apartment, officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FDNY\/status\/1938980344788656558\" rel=\"nofollow\">fire broke out inside a first-floor apartment<\/a> of the five-story building on Jesup Ave. near Sherif S. Byrd Place in Highbridge at about 9:30 p.m. Friday, according to FDNY officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnits arrived within four minutes,\u201d said Battalion Chief Timothy Reznick. \u201cWe were met with fire at the door in apartment 1C. We had to go to a second alarm due to manpower, the smoke condition throughout the building and the many (victims).\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mng-gallery-initialized mng-gallery-slider\">\n<li data-index=\"1\" class=\"mng-ge mng-gallery-active\" id=\"mng-ge-0\" aria-hidden=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><img alt=\"An 85-year-old man was killed and another man was fighting...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"  \/>\n<p>An 85-year-old man was killed and another man was fighting for his life after a fire tore through a Bronx apartment, officials said Saturday.  (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"2\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An 85-year-old man was killed and another man was fighting...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TNY-P32-20250628-092720.jpg\" \/>\n<p>An 85-year-old man was killed and another man was fighting for his life after a fire tore through a Bronx apartment, officials said Saturday.  (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-index=\"3\" class=\"mng-ge\" id=\"mng-ge-2\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An 85-year-old man was killed and another man was fighting...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/TNY-P7-20250628-092241.jpg\" \/>\n<p>An 85-year-old man was killed and another man was fighting for his life after a fire tore through a Bronx apartment, officials said Saturday.  (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>An 85-year-old man was killed and another man was fighting for his life after a fire tore through a Bronx apartment, officials said Saturday.  (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fire had gutted the first-floor apartment. An 85-year-old man and a second unidentified victim were removed from the burning apartment and rushed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/harlem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem Hospital<\/a>, where the octogenarian died. His name was not immediately disclosed as cops track down family members.<\/p>\n<p>The second man in the apartment remained in critical condition at Harlem Hospital Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Five other building residents and four firefighters suffered smoke inhalation and other injuries in the blaze and were taken to area hospitals for treatment, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>As firefighters arrived at the scene, they found a car parked in front of the nearest fire hydrant. While the car didn\u2019t stop firefighters from getting water on the fire, the vehicle was towed, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/02\/28\/woman-who-blocked-hydrant-outside-fatal-bronx-buddhist-temple-fire-hit-with-4k-fine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">owner will receive a criminal summons punishable by a $5,000 fine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters were also recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NYCEMSwatch\/status\/1938959066702725276\" rel=\"nofollow\">using a ladder to prop up and move a Smartcar<\/a> parked at a corner on the narrow block to allow a fire truck to roll through.<\/p>\n<p>Fire marshals on Saturday were trying to determine what sparked the fatal fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 85-year-old man was killed and another man was fighting for his life after a fire tore through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-22639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114762756004394150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639","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=22639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}