Flames erupted on the Brooklyn Bridge as fireworks were being shot from it during Macy\u2019s July 4 display over the East River.<\/p>\n
Video shows a plume of smoke emerging from a flaming section of the bridge as fireworks soar and burst around it Saturday night. Two other sections also appeared to burn as the pyrotechnics were being shot from the span.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first I thought it was supposed to happen but then I was scared it would exploded. I thought the bridge was made of wood so I was scared,\u201d said Nearing Khoula, 24, from France, who was watching the display from the Brooklyn waterfront.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were four at the same time. Some extra fireworks exploded due to the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
A fire is seen on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, July 4, 2026.<\/p>\n
A picture of the fire on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, July 4, 2026. X\/StacyLynBurnet2<\/p>\n
A fire seen on the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, July 4, 2026. REUTERS<\/p>\n
Fireworks seen going off by the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, July 4, 2026. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cIt started as a small fire and got bigger. There was too much black smoke,\u201d added Mohamed Shaban, 31, of Egypt. <\/p>\n
All the fires burned out after a minute, a Post reporter observed. <\/p>\n
A source with knowledge of the fire response said that \u201cminor\u201d blazes broke out on platforms installed to launch the fireworks, not on the bridge itself \u2014 and that the 143-year-old bridge remains \u201csafe and structurally sound.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fire was extinguished with two engines, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flames erupted on the Brooklyn Bridge as fireworks were being shot from it during Macy\u2019s July 4 display…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":913323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,25417,29877,10202,28133,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-913322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-america-250","tag-brooklyn-bridge","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-macys-fourth-of-july-fireworks-show","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116865219123533909","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913322","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=913322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}