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Reader Joel sent us this photograph of some billowing black smoke in downtown Brooklyn (he took it from Manhattan--see a bigger image here). While it looks ominous--and there is a lot of smoke--it turns out it is a truck fire on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, where it comes out near Middagh/Hicks Streets. The truck was reportedly carrying construction materials, but nothing hazardous.
Truck Fire on the BQE
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It was more than a truck fire, there was a colision shortly before, followed by a large fireball (where I had been standing about a minute before with friends). The video of the aftermath is being uploaded as we speak...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgTrK7IRDGw
FDNY says both people involved survived...(!)