{"id":899,"date":"2026-08-15T00:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/15\/viral-video-shows-fire-blazing-at-buzzy-n-y-c-restaurant\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T00:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T00:25:40","slug":"viral-video-shows-fire-blazing-at-buzzy-n-y-c-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/15\/viral-video-shows-fire-blazing-at-buzzy-n-y-c-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Video Shows Fire Blazing at Buzzy N.Y.C. Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Fire Department confirmed the blaze was contained in around 30 minutes<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/-_m3TYHL3BQ_RffCYvtzKeb3rwY=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/Ambassadors-Clubhouse-New-York-81426-9a9e74889df943dc8d61102ca0e92de4.jpg\" alt=\"Ambassadors Clubhouse New York on April 30, 2026Credit: Madison Voelkel\/BFA.com\/Shutterstock\" title=\"mbassadors Clubhouse New York\" \/><figcaption><i>Ambassadors Clubhouse New York on April 30, 2026<br \/>Credit: Madison Voelkel\/BFA.com\/Shutterstock<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ambassadors Clubhouse, an Indian restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, caught fire on Wednesday, Aug. 12<\/li>\n<li>No injuries were reported as firefighters contained the blaze while the restaurant was closed<\/li>\n<li>A representative for JKS Restaurants confirmed the eatery will remain closed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A New York City restaurant suffered a severe fire on Wednesday, Aug. 12.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassadors Clubhouse, an Indian restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, caught fire at 10:39 a.m. while the eatery was closed. The fire remained on the building\u2019s exterior and was contained by the New York Fire Department (FDNY) by 11:10 a.m., the FDNY confirmed in a statement to PEOPLE.<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassadors Clubhouse, operated by JKS Restaurants, will close temporarily until it is safe to reopen, a JKS Restaurants representative confirmed in a statement to PEOPLE.<\/p>\n<p>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\">PEOPLE\u2019s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p>Pavan Pardasani, the Global CEO of JKS Restaurants, addressed the incident in an <a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DcB8F5SEZUN\/?img_index=1\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"null\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0post on Friday, Aug. 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs business owners, restauranteurs alike, we face constant uncertainty in our day to day operations,\u201d Pardasani wrote. \u201cThis is nothing more than a highly visible example of that. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Pardasani\u2019s post included footage of the incident, which showed smoke pouring out of the building as the blaze burned.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Fire Department confirmed the blaze was contained in around 30 minutes Ambassadors Clubhouse New York on April 30, 2026Credit: Madison Voelkel\/BFA.com\/Shutterstock NEED TO KNOW The Ambassadors Clubhouse, an Indian restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, caught fire on Wednesday, Aug. 12 No injuries were reported as firefighters contained the blaze while the restaurant was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}