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In a wild scene caught on camera in Ozone Park, an SUV suddenly exploded while parked on the street, with the blast so intense that several other cars and homes were damaged. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

No injuries were reported. Surveillance footage shows the moment of the blast.

NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Authorities are investigating the explosion of an SUV in Queens Friday as an accident. According to fire officials and a law enforcement source, an unoccupied vehicle parked on 133rd Street near 131st Avenue with a propane tank in the trunk exploded just before 7 a.m. Friday. No one was inside the vehicle at the time and no injuries were reported….

Video posted to the Citizen app showed a heavy emergency response, as bystanders stood behind caution tape to watch the scene unfold. The van that exploded was completely destroyed.

The smoke was visible for miles, from Van Cortlandt Park over the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx. The FDNY used drones overhead to pinpoint and target hot spots from four separate fires inside the park. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

Firefighters worked to put out a large brush fire in the Bronx, sending smoke into the air that was visible for miles. Chopper 4 was over the scene of the fire, which was burning in a wooded area of Van Courtland Park, near the Major Deegan Expressway and not far from a number of homes in the area. The fire,…

Heavy smoke can be seen for miles Monday morning from a brush fire burning near the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx.

A firefighter was badly injured Friday, not by the smoke or flames tearing through a Manhattan apartment building, but by a 40-foot fall. The Hamilton Heights building ignited around 2:30 p.m. and quickly shot to five alarms, triggering a massive response from the FDNY. Huge flames could be seen shooting out from apartment windows on multiple floors. Everyone inside the…

The fire burned at least 10 apartments, FDNY officials said, but none of the building’s residents suffered more than minor injuries. News 4’s Chris Jose reports. 

One of two former FDNY chiefs indicted last month in a federal bribery probe that accused the men of exchanging bribes for fast-tracking inspections has pleaded not guilty, prosecutors announced Tuesday. Brian Cordasco pleaded not guilty to conspiring to solicit and receives bribes, Damian Williams, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced. Cordasco was charged...

Anthony Saccavino, 59, and Brian Cordasco, 49, are charged with conspiracy to solicit and receive a bribe, solicitation and receipt of a bribe, honest services wire fraud, conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, and making false statements in the scheme. News 4’s Chris Glorioso reports. 

The chiefs are accused of taking tens of thousands in bribes to help fast-track safety inspections and reviews. 

The latest staffing shake-up within the Adams administration comes amid ongoing federal investigations into many of his top officials. News 4’s Ida Siegal reports.  

Two former FDNY chiefs were indicted on bribery, corruption and false statement offenses for allegedly conspiring to solicit and accept tens of thousands of dollars in bribe payments for giving preferential treatment to certain people and companies with safety inspection matters pending, federal prosecutors announced Monday. Anthony Saccavino, 59, and Brian Cordasco, 49, were charged with conspiracy to solicit and…

Melissa Russo shares the details for NBC New York. 

The NYC is naming a new commissioner a month after Laura Kavanagh announced she would be stepping down. Here’s what we know. 

Mayor Eric Adams on Monday appointed Robert S. Tucker, the head of a private security firm, to head the city’s fire department. Tucker, 54, takes over from Laura Kavanagh, the first woman to serve as the city’s fire commissioner. “I can think of no higher calling than serving as a fire commissioner of New York,” Tucker, the chairman and...

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 14 years in prison for hurling a Molotov cocktail into a Brooklyn deli nearly three years ago, causing significant damage to the business and narrowly taking the lives of the two workers inside. Prosecutors said Joel Mangal, 40, threw a lit device into the deli on Oct. 30, 2021, and tried to chuck a…

Police believe a man started a fire that injured at least ten people in Brooklyn Tuesday morning, and that man is also accused of trying to block people from escaping. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.