USA Fire in New York high-rise building

SDA

24.1.2026 - 12:45

HANDOUT - Members of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) are responding to a fire on the top two floors of a high-rise building in the Bronx. Photo: Uncredited/New York City Fire Department/AP/dpa - ATTENTION: For editorial use only in connection with current reporting and only with full attribution to the above credit
HANDOUT - Members of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) are responding to a fire on the top two floors of a high-rise building in the Bronx. Photo: Uncredited/New York City Fire Department/AP/dpa - ATTENTION: For editorial use only in connection with current reporting and only with full attribution to the above credit
Keystone

The New York City Fire Department battles a fire on the upper floors of a high-rise building in the Bronx borough. This is according to an X-Post from the fire department on Saturday night (local time). No further details were provided in the post. There was initially no information on the cause of the fire or possible victims.

Keystone-SDA

It was only in mid-January that a residential building in New York's Bronx partially collapsed. The chimney shaft of the 20-storey building apparently collapsed, as the fire department reported at the time. There had previously been reports of an explosion.