Gas Explosion Levels Vacant Brooklyn Home: FDNY

NEW YORK CITY — A blast leveled a vacant Brooklyn home and damaged two others in what's the second major residential gas explosion to hit the city in recent weeks.

The Friday morning explosion along Bay 35th Street in Bath Beach displaced six people who lived in neighboring homes, officials said.

They escaped injury in the blast, which shook the block at 7:11 a.m., FDNY officials said.

“Everyone is accounted for,” Christina Farrell, the city's acting emergency management commissioner, said during a briefing outside the homes.

Mayor Eric Adams visited the site in a scene that drew parallels with a Jan. 18 explosion in the Bronx that left one woman dead and eight injured.

“This is the second one that have responded to since I have been in office,” he told reporters.

The Brooklyn explosion on Bay 35th Street and Benson Avenue drew about 100 FDNY firefighters, officials said.

All three buildings affected by the blast will have to be torn down because of structural damage, officials said.

Firefighters believe the main house at 67 Bay 35th St. was unoccupied, but they still sifted through the rubble in case someone was inside, officials said.

Adams and officials urged New Yorkers to call 911 if they smell gas.

“We take the smell of gas seriously,” he said.