{"id":944263,"date":"2026-07-18T23:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/944263\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:09:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:09:48","slug":"5-injured-jefferies-nyc-offices-evacuated-as-fire-strikes-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/944263\/","title":{"rendered":"5 injured, Jefferies\u2019 NYC offices evacuated as fire strikes restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) \u2014 <\/strong>Jefferies Financial Group Inc.\u2019s offices in Manhattan were evacuated Friday as a fire broke out at the Papillon restaurant.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Early Friday morning, the city\u2019s fire department received a call about a fire in the restaurant that was being fed by gas, a fire department spokesperson said. The emergency prompted the bank to shut its headquarters at 520 Madison Ave., according to a company spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 people were evacuated from the building, according to John Corcoran, a deputy assistant chief for the city\u2019s fire department. About four civilians had minor injuries, while a fifth was transported to a nearby hospital, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze was under control around 9:30 a.m. in New York. The exact cause of the fire is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>No Jefferies employees were harmed, according to a person familiar with the situation, who asked not to be identified discussing private matters. The city <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NotifyNYC\/status\/2078076972928750058?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">warned<\/a> of disruptions in the area of Madison Avenue and East 53rd Street.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More stories available on bloomberg.com.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) \u2014 Jefferies Financial Group Inc.\u2019s offices in Manhattan were evacuated Friday as a fire broke&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":944264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6525,5025,17833,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-944263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-fdny","tag-fire","tag-midtown","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-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116943504361048765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944263","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=944263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}