Crime & Safety
Car Torched on Prospect Park Southwest
An SUV was set ablaze on the morning of January 30, but by the time the FDNY arrived to extinguish the flames, the owner of the vehicle was nowhere to be found.
On January 30, an SUV parked on Prospect Park Southwest was set ablaze at around 10:30 a.m.
An anonymous call was made to 911 on Monday, alerting authorities that a Land Rover was engulfed in flames, sitting outside of between 10th and 11th avenues.
When the FDNY arrived to the scene, there was no one in or around the vehicle, which was quickly melting from the licking flames.
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The FDNY's Engine Company 240 and responded to the call and put out the fire by 11:51 a.m.
, and frequent park-goer, sent Park Slope Patch the photos of the torched Landy on Tuesday.
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“It still smelled from the burning and you can see the windshield glass melted right onto the hood,” Titze wrote.
Titze said that the car’s paint was burned right off the left side of the vehicle.
An NYPD spokesman said they did not have a report about this incident in their records.
A spokesman for the FDNY said that the cause of the fire is still being investigated by the Fire Marshal.
Did you happen to see the burning SUV? Did you hear anything during the blaze? If you have any details about the incident please E-mail Park Slope Patch's editor: Will.Yakowicz@Patch.com.
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