Gnarly pictures present a Downtown Brooklyn avenue overflowing with heaps of trash after a sanitation truck caught fireplace Saturday morning.
“As seen this AM; an awful lot of rubbish for one brooklyn street,” photographer Bob Ahern captioned a sequence of pictures and movies of the disgusting scene posted to Instagram.
Moist mounds of cardboard packing containers, plastic baggage, newspapers and different filth seem strewn throughout Livingston Road between Nevins Road and Flatbush Avenue within the posts, which additionally present a firefighter placing a water hose again onto a firetruck.
The flames consumed the trash-collecting truck round 7:30 a.m., in accordance with the FDNY, who didn’t say what induced the blaze.
There have been no accidents.
Video posted to the Citizen app confirmed at the very least three firetrucks closing the block off to site visitors, whereas eight firefighters are seen dousing the sanitation division car with water from hoses.
Between massive plumes of smoke, the burnt rubbish could be seen spilling from the car’s tail finish. Flame fighters additionally used lengthy sticks to poke on the particles, a few of which was nonetheless ablaze, the clip exhibits.
