A 5-alarm, gas-fed blaze, broke out at a home on 130th Street around 3 a.m. and quickly intensified, eventually causing the house to collapse.
A house collapsed in a fifth alarm gas fed fire in South Ozone Park, Queens, that appears to have started as a domestic dispute. Police officers had responded to a 911 call of a domestic dispute at the home, and a suspect armed with a knife.
As they arrived, they smelled gas coming from the structure and were met by a woman, who gave them the keys to her basement apartment. The officers were attempting to enter the apartment to look for her estranged husband when the house exploded. The NYPD officers sustained minor burns. The most serve injury was a laceration to the head that required stitches.
Police reviewed body worn cameras that showed the explosion was so severe it blew several officers off their feet and into a fence. All 11 residents of the building, who live in the basement and first and second floors, have been accounted for. Seven lived on the first and second floor another four lived in the basement. The suspect, believed to be the estranged husband who no longer lives in the home, remains unaccounted for.
The house quickly collapsed in the blast, and firefighters spent hours attempting to keep the flames from spreading to neighboring homes. They have been unable to search the remains of the basement apartment until National Grid shuts off the gas line. An excavator is being brought in to dig up the street and access the line. Have a breaking news tip or an idea for a story we should cover?
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