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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, MARCH 10, 2019
Hot wheels Fire sparks in
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.
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 caught 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
D’town station
Truck catches fi re
on expressway
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