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Police said it happened around 1:30 p.m. at 1025 Boynton Ave. located between Bruckner Boulevard and Watson Avenue.

“We believe it started in the clothes dryer and that it overheated there and then came a little bit of an extension outside not much,” said the FDNY battalion chief at the scene. “We’re ...