An explosion and fireplace at a Crown Heights NYCHA complicated Friday night time left one man useless, in response to police and fireplace officers — and a lithium-ion battery was reportedly linked to the blaze.
The 7 p.m. blast rocked the twelfth flooring of Albany Homes close to Prospect Place, drawing greater than 120 fireplace and EMS personnel to the scene.
Firefighters extinguished the flames by 8 p.m.
The fireplace is linked to a lithium-ion battery, in response to NY1.
An 18-year-old man was taken to One Brooklyn Well being-Interfaith Medical Heart with critical, life-threatening accidents, the place he was later pronounced useless by hospital workers, in response to police.
A neighbor who knew the household of the sufferer advised PIX11 that they have been “speaking to the mom final week…we was having good speak about our children.”
“And that’s tousled how we each moved right here younger with our young children and for her to lose one…that’s large,” she mentioned.
The sufferer has not been recognized and authorities famous that the reason for the explosion is underneath investigation.
The FDNY couldn’t affirm or deny whether or not a lithium-ion battery was linked to the hearth.
