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Fire exploded Thursday at a Queens home, where police were responding to a call about a dispute, and quickly spread to another home, generating a fifth alarm and injuring nearly a dozen. Police say officers were trying to get into the home where the call originated,
A body was found in the aftermath of a fiery explosion at a Queens home Thursday morning, police said. The person has not yet been identified, police said. The chaos unfolded Thursday around 2:42 a.m.
Eight police officers were among those injured when a Southern Queens home exploded early Thursday morning during a standoff.
The house blew up with NYPD officers on the front stoop. Angelica Castellar was home with her three kids in their third-floor apartment at the time.
Police said officers from the NYPD responded at around 2:42 a.m. to a 911 call reporting a domestic dispute involving a man armed with a knife at a house on 130th Street.
YONKERS, N.Y. (PIX11) — Nearly two dozen families are out of their homes and an investigation is underway after residents reported an explosion and a fire that broke out at one of the largest apartment buildings in this southern Westchester County city.