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Cops: 1 dead, at least 33 injured in fiery LIE crash

One person was killed and at least 32

One person was killed and at least 32 injured -- two of them seriously -- in a fiery crash late Wednesday afternoon involving more than three dozen vehicles on the eastbound Long Island Expressway in Yaphank, police and emergency officials said. Videojournalists: Ed Betz and James Carbone (Dec. 19, 2012) (December 19, 2012 8:16 PM)

A tractor trailer hauling debris from superstorm Sandy slammed into multiple vehicles on the Long Island Expressway Wednesday afternoon, causing a fiery, 35-vehicle wreck that killed one driver and injured at least 33 people.

The crash closed portions of the Island's main commuter artery at Exit 68 in Yaphank at the peak of rush hour and into Wednesday night, emergency officials said.

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