{"id":9255,"date":"2026-05-22T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T12:18:09","slug":"watch-everybody-back-up-car-explodes-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=9255&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Watch: &#8216;Everybody Back Up!&#8217; Car Explodes in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatic footage captured the moment a hybrid car exploded into a massive fireball in <b>Lower Manhattan<\/b> on Tuesday afternoon, causing onlookers to flee for safety. The incident occurred just outside the <b>Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) headquarters<\/b>, a short distance from Wall Street&#8217;s iconic Charging Bull statue.<\/p>\n<p>Online videos show thick black smoke engulfing the street following the explosion. Firefighters responded to the scene at approximately <b>5:42 PM EDT<\/b> and successfully extinguished the blaze just over an hour later, as reported by ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities confirmed that <b>no injuries were reported<\/b>. The incident is currently under investigation, with preliminary findings suggesting an <b>electrical fault<\/b> as the likely cause.<\/p>\n<p>#NYCCarExplosion #ManhattanIncident #CarFire #HybridCar #LowerManhattan #MTAHeadquarters #EmergencyResponse #Firefighters #ElectricalFault #NYCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatic footage captured the moment a hybrid car exploded into a massive fireball in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, causing onlookers to flee for safety. The incident occurred just outside the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) headquarters, a short distance from Wall Street&#8217;s iconic Charging Bull statue. Online videos show thick black smoke engulfing the street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}