Port Authority: 3 officers treated after car fire at Kennedy Airport
Three Port Authority police officers were treated at a hospital for smoke inhalation after responding to a car fire at Kennedy Airport. Credit: Port Authority of New York
Three Port Authority police officers were treated at a hospital for smoke inhalation after responding to a fire Tuesday that engulfed two vehicles at a Kennedy Airport parking structure, the authority said.
About 12:50 p.m. the owner of a car on the second story of the Blue Parking Lot near Terminal 4 notified the Port Authority Police Department regarding a vehicle fire, a Port Authority spokesperson told Newsday via email. The fire spread to a second vehicle.
The three officers were transported to a hospital for treatment, according to the agency’s spokesperson, who did not have an update on their condition lateTuesday. EMS personnel with the city fire department treated the officers at the scene, the FDNY said. There were no additional injuries reported.
The FDNY extinguished the blaze about 35 minutes after the initial call, the Port Authority said. The two cars involved in the blaze were towed from the airport.
The fire department sent two engines and two ladder trucks to the scene, an FDNY spokesperson told Newsday via email.
Normal operations resumed at the parking lot following the fire, the Port Authority said.
Neither the FDNY nor the Port Authority provided information regarding the cause of the fire.
