{"id":336946,"date":"2017-11-28T09:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fire-in-times-square-forces-mass-evacuation-all-hands-on-deck-response-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2017-11-28T09:22:26","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T08:22:26","slug":"fire-in-times-square-forces-mass-evacuation-all-hands-on-deck-response-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fire-in-times-square-forces-mass-evacuation-all-hands-on-deck-response-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Times Square forces mass evacuation, all hands on deck response \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2017.11\/thumbnail\/5a1c9439fc7e9369698b4569.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 27 Nov, 2017 22:25 <\/time><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Edited time: 28 Nov, 2017 06:41 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        The FDNY is in all-hands-on-deck mode after a fire and smoke prompted over 100 people to evacuate 1540 Broadway in Times Square, including the 45-story Viacom building. No injuries have been reported so far.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FDNYalerts MAN ALL HANDS 1540 BROADWAY, HIGH RISE FIRE IN PARKING GARAGE STORAGE AREA,<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FDNYalerts (@FDNYAlerts) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FDNYAlerts\/status\/935270189121376257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><\/div>\n<p>The fire began around 4:30pm in a storage room of the Midtown Manhattan skyscraper&#8217;s parking garage, the FDNY said, WCBS <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2017\/11\/27\/fire-in-storage-room-prompts-partial-evacuation-of-high-rise-near-times-square\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The chaotic scene caused traffic to be closed on 45th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues.<\/p>\n<p>The FDNY tweeted out an alert shortly after 5:30pm that the fire was under control.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/411122-times-square-fire-evacuation-viacom\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 27 Nov, 2017 22:25 Edited time: 28 Nov, 2017 06:41 The FDNY is in all-hands-on-deck mode after a fire and smoke prompted over 100 people to evacuate 1540 Broadway in Times Square, including the 45-story Viacom building. No injuries have been reported so far. FDNYalerts MAN ALL HANDS 1540 BROADWAY, HIGH RISE FIRE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-336946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}