Trash fire engulfs car on 4th Street

Reporting by Stacie Joy 

The FDNY responded to an early morning report of a sidewalk trash-bag fire on Fourth Street just west of Avenue A, which spread to a parked car.

Local Assembly Member Harvey Epstein shared these photos from around 6 a.m.

It's unclear what caused the trash fire or if someone intentionally set several stacked garbage bags ablaze.

Another EVG reader shared this photo ... after the FDNY combed through and spread out the contents of the trash bags and doused them with water... 

The car appears to be destroyed. There weren't any reports of injuries.

A car fire on 4th Street

This afternoon, Kanielle Hernandez had just parked her car when it erupted in flames in the Mariana Bracetti Plaza lot on Fourth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C... the FDNY (the nearby FDNY Engine 28 Ladder 11) quickly responded to the blaze... EVG contributor Stacie Joy was on the scene...

Hernandez doesn't know how or why the fire started but speculated that rats may have chewed through wires in the engine. (She had noticed some rat-chewing damage last night.) Thankfully no one was injured, though the car is in bad shape.

And Hernandez shot this video of the fire...

   

Report of a car fire on East Houston

We heard from two readers about a possible explosion this morning on East Houston between Avenue C and Avenue D.

Turned out that a car parked along the eastbound lanes near Pitt caught fire. Thankfully there weren't any reports of injuries.

The Post had a dispatch on it:

No one was in the blue four-door vehicle at the time, and there were no injuries, officials said.

They said liquid was leaking from the car before the fire and that the incident is not being considered suspicious.

Three FDNY units and 13 firefighters responded to the scene and put out the blaze, officials added.

Car explosion on Ave C/Houston. That was an alt side of the street parking so praying no one got hurt. 🙏 pic.twitter.com/70jlhbaN8u

— Sonny (@surfista___) September 17, 2019

Meanwhile, on Sunday night, several readers reported that a cab caught fire on 13th Street between Second Avenue and Third Avenue. The aftermath from yesterday...


[Photo by @barrett_roland]

Car fire on 14th Street

Don't have much, if any, info about this... a car caught fire early this morning/late last night in the westbound side of 14th Street at Second Avenue ... the FDNY quickly extinguished the blaze (and there is a firehouse on the block...)



Thanks to @jcastro_nyc for the photos!

Tonight in car fires on Avenue A

Car on fire at E 4th and Ave A in East Village. Looks like battery caught fire. @FDNY in the scene. @evgrieve pic.twitter.com/lJdZOm2uxF

— Cecil Scheib (@cecilscheib) January 8, 2016

And there's a video clip here.

Updated: Car fire on Avenue A and East 7th Street

[Photo via @RTSNYC]

From the EVG Twitter hotline... About 12:15 or so...


[Photo by @jansichermann]

Anyway! All is well. The FDNY is here.


[Photo via @RTSNYC]

Updated 1:10

A few more photos courtesy of EVG reader Leah Milstein...







And now some video via @RTSNYC ...



...and more video from Leah ...

Early morning car fire on East 8th Street

The FDNY was quick to respond to this car fire on East Eighth Street between Avenue C and Avenue D… EVG reader Peter H. from 8th Street shared these photos …











No word at the moment what caused the fire…

Breaking: Car fire on East Ninth Street

Just east of Second Avenue... Photo and tip via EVG reader Kristen, who notes, as of 7:32, emergency responders were on the scene...

And a little later ... after the FDNY put out the engine fire ... via @JacobDAnderson

And from EV Grieve reader Terry Howell...

... and this afternoon.... via EVG reader William Klayer...