Hot wheels Fire sparks in
Bakery-supply truck D’town station
bursts into fl ames
on expressway
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BY COLIN MIXSON
New York’s Bravest rushed to extinguish
a fi re inside Downtown’s
Hoyt Street station on Monday,
which sparked when equipment
came in contact with metal debris
on the tracks, according to offi -
cials.
Firefi ghters received a call about
the blaze at 9:46 am, hightailing it to
the station near Fulton Mall where
they battled the fl ames on the Flatbush
bound 2 and 3 tracks as the operator
of a stalled 2 train looked on
from a few feet away.
The responders took off roughly
40 minutes later, before fully extinguishing
the fl ames, said a Fire Department
spokesman, who added
they exited so that Metropolitan
Transportation Authority workers
could kill power to the tracks in order
to fully smother the fi re.
And crews with the state-run
transit agency restored service
along the line by 10:44 am, about
an hour after fi refi ghters fi rst arrived,
according to spokeswoman
Amanda Kwan.
The blaze began after an insulator
— a piece of equipment that protects
the third rail — came in contact
with metal debris on the track,
Kwan said.
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BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Firefi ghters rushed to put out a blaze
on the Brookyln–Queens Expressway
on Monday, when a truck burst into
fl ames on the highway near the Columbia
Street Waterfront District.
Dozens of New York’s Bravest at 11:13
am descended on the Queens-bound
side of the expressway, after the vehicle
belonging to a bakery-supply company
set on fi re between Rapelye Street and
Atlantic Avenue, according to a Fire Department
spokesman.
The responders battled the wheeled
inferno after the truck’s driver pulled
the smoldering vehicle onto the side of
the highway near Adams Street, where
black smoke billowed from the wreckage,
and the stench of burnt gasoline
fi lled the air.
The trucker managed to pull the vehicle
over and escape it with his passenger
before the fl ames injured either of
them, according to another employee at
Queens-based Sparta Bakery Supplies.
The Fire Department spokesman
confi rmed the blaze injured no one, including
the driver and passenger.
BAKED: A bakery-supply truck went up in fl ames on the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway between
Atlantic Avenue and Rapelye Street on Monday, and its driver pulled the vehicle over
on the highway near Adams Street, where fi refi ghters rushed to put out the fl ames.
Photo by Kevin Duggan
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