By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2025-04-05 19:47:14 | Updated at 2025-04-06 13:51:33
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Gnarly photos show a Downtown Brooklyn street overflowing with heaps of trash after a sanitation truck caught fire Saturday morning.
“As seen this AM; an awful lot of rubbish for one brooklyn street,” photographer Bob Ahern captioned a series of images and videos of the disgusting scene posted to Instagram.
Wet mounds of cardboard boxes, plastic bags, newspapers and other filth appear strewn all over Livingston Street between Nevins Street and Flatbush Avenue in the posts, which also show a firefighter putting a water hose back onto a firetruck.
The flames consumed the trash-collecting truck around 7:30 a.m., according to the FDNY, who didn’t say what caused the blaze.
There were no injuries.
Video posted to the Citizen app showed at least three firetrucks closing the block off to traffic, while eight firefighters are seen dousing the sanitation department vehicle with water from hoses.
Between large plumes of smoke, the burnt garbage can be seen spilling from the vehicle’s tail end. Flame fighters also used long sticks to poke at the debris, some of which was still ablaze, the clip shows.
