Crews spent hours battling a fire at a Queens tire shop Tuesday.
NEW YORK â It broke out around 5:15 p.m. at a two-story shop on Liberty Avenue near 88th Street in Jamaica .New York City Fire Department officials said when firefighters arrived on the scene, they found heavy fire in the rear of the building extending inside. Firefighters tried to enter the building, but the severity of the flames forced them to withdraw and fight the fire from outside, Acting Chief of Department John Esposito said.
As they start to melt, the liquid that they create then starts to burn and that necessitates us to use the foam to extinguish what is now like a burning liquid fire. And the number of tires that they had stacked up was considerable, so without the foam, we don't think we would've been able to extinguish this fire and stop all that smoke that we could see from miles away,' Esposito said. 'That smoke is toxic and trying to prevent the spread of that smoke is one of our jobs to do.
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