ONE person has been killed and 36 injured after a massive explosion erupted while firefighters were carrying out a rescue mission.
Members of the FDNY were trying to rescue two people from a fire in Mariners Harbor, Staten Island, at 4:20pm on Friday when the dock was rocked by an explosion.
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Firefighters and emergency crews responded to an explosion and fire at a shipyard on Staten Island, New York on Friday afternoon Credit: Getty
One person was killed and 36 injured including two members of the fire department who are in a serious condition in hospital Credit: Getty
Crews had been tackling the blaze for around an hour when the devastating blast took place.
Among the 36 injured injured, who are primarily first responders, two have been hospitalised with serious injuries and have been identified as members of the fire department.
“I ask every New Yorker to keep those injured — and their families — in your thoughts,” the city’s mayor Zohran Mamdani said on X.
The Mayor said that FDNY Fire Marshal Cucher is critical but stable with a small brain bleed and temporal fracture.
The second hospitalized firefighter is in a serious but stable condition, he added.
More to follow…
