Crime & Safety
BQE Fire Near Red Hook Leaves 3 Injured
Flames shot out of a truck on the highway as other cars drove by.
RED HOOK, BROOKLYN — A fire erupted on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway near the Hamilton Avenue exit on Friday afternoon, sending flames and thick, black smoke pouring into the sky and firefighters rushing to the scene.
Three people suffered non-life threatening injuries in the blaze, which happened in a truck on the interstate between Atlantic and Hamilton avenues. The fire started around noon and has since been brought under control.
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Brooklyn: West bound at Brooklyn Queens expy ave exit, FDNY reporting a fully involved truck fire, no injuries. pic.twitter.com/tu36jsBLzi
— NYC Scanner (@NYScanner) April 21, 2017
Crazy accident on the BQE pic.twitter.com/jpqlOv6RGE
— Joseph Sutton (@Joe_Sutt) April 21, 2017
Crazy truck fire on the BQE right near my apt- melting the guard rails and stopping traffic completely. YIKES. pic.twitter.com/gHXTjfbfoM
— Dana Erickson (@wiscodana) April 21, 2017
Image via NYC Scanner, used with permission.
Editor's note: Initial information about the fire placed it in Gowanus. We've updated this story to note that it was closer to Red Hook.
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