{"id":435944,"date":"2025-12-09T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/435944\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:16:13","slug":"flames-erupt-from-windows-roof-as-blaze-engulfs-nyc-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/435944\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames erupt from windows, roof as blaze engulfs NYC apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"

A massive blaze engulfed an Upper West Side apartment building Tuesday morning \u2014 as raging flames and plumes of smoke poured from the roof and out of windows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The fire erupted\u00a0at 8:20 a.m. on the top floor of the six-story rental building on West 107th Street near Amsterdam Avenue, the FDNY said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A massive blaze engulfed a six-story rental building on West 107th Street near Amsterdam Avenue Tuesday morning, the FDNY said.\u00a0 FDNY<\/p>\n

The fire erupted\u00a0at 8:20 a.m. on the top floor of the six-story rental building, the FDNY said. Citizen<\/p>\n

Intense smoke and flames billowed from the roof of the building.<\/p>\n

Within about 15 minutes, it grew to a third-alarm fire, before escalating to a four-alarm inferno by 9:10 a.m., according to fire officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A total of 40 FDNY units, including 140 fire and EMS personnel are working the scene and operations are ongoing, the department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A photo posted <\/a>on X by the department shows the bright-orange flames and thick smoke escaping from the top floor windows and the roof.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The fire quickly escalated to a four-alarm response, officials said. Citizen<\/p>\n

There was no immediate word on injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A massive blaze engulfed an Upper West Side apartment building Tuesday morning \u2014 as raging flames and plumes…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":435945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,11096,6525,4216,5249,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,36246,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-435944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-apartments","10":"tag-fdny","11":"tag-fires","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-metro","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","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-upper-west-side","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115690509811386224","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435944","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=435944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}