WATCH: One Sunset Park Manhole Was So Over This Heat, It Set a Car on Fire

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — Three manholes exploded at 60th Street and 3rd Avenue last Monday night, causing a series of neighborhood-quaking bangs and shutting off power to nearby homes well into the wee hours.

So fiery, indeed, was one of the three manholes, that it spewed its flames onto a vehicle parked on 60th — causing the car, too, to transform into a scary urban fireball, according to the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY).

And can you really blame the guy?

After a day of wild thunder, lightning, flash floods and a 105-degree heat index, under the pressure of crippling "heat and the heavy demand for electricity," according to a ConEd spokesman, the trio of manholes finally popped their lids around 10:10 p.m. that evening.

Sunset Park resident Thomas Stewart caught the chaotic scene on tape (included below). He also snapped an "after" pic of the car on the wrong end of the third manhole's wrath (above).

It took 25 firefighters from five units to bring the Sunset Park manhole/vehicle fire under control, according to the FDNY.

Stewart told Patch that ConEd was able to restore power to him and his neighbors around 3:30 a.m. Workers with the company were back on scene both Tuesday and Wednesday, he said, to get to the root of the problem.

On especially hot days, "the heavy volume of power flowing through our equipment can cause it to overheat," a ConEd spokesman said over email.

Ditto, manhole. Ditto.

Images courtesy of Thomas Stewart