Seven New York City firefighters were injured Wednesday night after a fire in the Bronx led to a car explosion.
“A wall of fire came on them and surrounded them,” Dr. Sheldon Temperman of Jacobi Hospital, who treated the most severely injured firefighters, said, according to The New York Post.
“I’ll be worried until they’re all home, but we do expect that they will recover from their injuries,” Temperman said.
He said the firefighters he treated were worried more about others than themselves.
“What they were concerned about was their colleagues and their families. And there is a reason why I refer to you folks as New York’s Greatest,” he said.
“On Wednesday night, FDNY members responded to multiple calls for a fire at 955 Westchester Avenue in the Bronx.”
Firefighters arrived to find multiple cars and rubbish piles on fire, according to an FDNY post on X.
Then came the explosion.
“The explosion injured seven firefighters, five of them with burns to the hands and the face. Three of them are being admitted,” Chief John Esposito said in the post.
“The burns are considered serious, but non-life threatening. Our firefighters are awake, alert and speaking, but they have some serious burns, and we’ll be praying for them,” Esposito said.
“There was a lot of garbage and debris on the sidewalk that was on fire. There were a couple of cars on fire. And shortly after we arrived on the scene, there was some sort of explosion, a large fireball,” he said at a news conference, the Post reported.
FDNY officials said the fires began in piles of garbage and then spread to vehicles, according to WNYW. The fire was reported at about 7 p.m. and was not brought under control until 8:19 p.m.
At least 5 firefighters injured after reported car explosion in the Bronx: FDNY https://t.co/fYt8UyL6d0 pic.twitter.com/mhAXGP6aXi
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