Crime & Safety

Truck Fire Snarls Mid-Afternoon BQE Traffic

No injuries reported during incident called in at 1:44 p.m.

A truck caught fire on the westbound side of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway near the Flushing Avenue exit Friday afternoon.

The fire was called in at 1:44 p.m. and was brought under control at 3:04 p.m., an FDNY spokesman said. 

No one was injured in the fire, the spokesman said.

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