Blaze at NYPD auto impound leaves evidence ‘burning down’ in Brooklyn, two firefighters injured’

Three firefighters were critically injured when a massive fire engulfed the NYPD auto depot in Brooklyn Tuesday morning, destroying a litany of cars, many considered evidence of crimes.

Fire officials said eight people suffered minor injuries in the three-alarm fire that started around 10:37 a.m. at the Erie Basin Auto Pound on Columbia Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

More than 30 units were deployed and 140 firefighters responded.

Fire Chief John Hodgens said firefighters attempted an interior fire attack but quickly became “overwhelmed” and switched to an exterior attack. Later, a section of the building collapsed and authorities said the fire could last several days.

The NYPD uses the car pound to they house illegal dirt bikes and ATVs that are seized by cops on city streets. Vehicles that are evidence in criminal investigations, such as cars in which victims were shot, are also kept there. News of the day informed.

More than 30 units were deployed and 140 firefighters responded to the blazing fire

Some of the cars that were torched include vehicles that were used by officers who were killed in the line of duty.

The patrol car for Officer Eddie Byrne, who was shot in 1988 while sitting in his car, is in the parking lot, as is the car where Officer Miosotis Familia was killed execution-style in 2017.

The 48-year-old mother of three was shot in the head by Alexander Bonds, 38, who was later shot dead by police.

Familia was shot through the passenger-side window of their police vehicle near the intersection of 183rd Street and Grand Concourse in the Bronx.

Bonds had sought psychiatric care days before the shooting. He randomly targeted Familia after she lashed out at police officers on social media.

Miosotis was a 12-year veteran of the NYPD and left behind a 20-year-old daughter and 12-year-old twins, a boy and a girl.

In 2012, the same car storage facility was hit during Hurricane Sandy and the evidence was ruined, the sources said, The New York Post reported.

The cause of the fire on Tuesday morning is still unknown.

Fire officials said the three-alarm fire that started around 10:37 a.m. at the Erie Basin Auto Pound on Columbia Street in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Bonds had sought psychiatric care days before the shooting. He randomly targeted Familia after she lashed out at police officers on social media.

Miosotis was a 12-year veteran of the NYPD who left behind a 20-year-old daughter and 12-year-old twins, a boy and a girl.

The cause of the fire is still unknown.

In 2012, the same car storage facility was hit during Hurricane Sandy and the evidence was ruined, the sources said, The New York Post reported.

Rookie NYPD officer Eddie Byrne had been on the force for just seven months when he was brutally murdered in southern Jamaica. He was 22 years old.

The officer had been protecting a witness in a drug case when a suspect approached his marked vehicle and shot him five times in the head.

Drug dealer and reputed gangster Lorenzo ‘Fat Cat’ Nichols was linked to Byrne’s brutal murder and the mastermind of two other murders, including his ex-girlfriend. He is currently serving a 25-year to life sentence.

A view of the site when a massive fire broke out at an NYPD evidence deposit and storage depot in Brooklyn on Tuesday

Three firefighters were seriously injured while extinguishing the three-alarm fire

Helicopters are shown flying around the risk plume of thick gray smoke

Firefighters transporting some of the injured in the Tuesday morning fire

Fire Chief John Hodgens said firefighters attempted an interior fire attack but quickly became “overwhelmed” and switched to an exterior attack. A section of the building later collapsed.

Fire officials said the fire could last for several days as firefighters work to extinguish the blaze.

Smoke from the fire could be seen for miles and engulfed part of New York Harbor.