Crown Heights Firefighters Caught Lighting Fireworks: Report

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — One of countless illegal fireworks blasts recently sparking frustrations in Brooklyn was lit by an unlikely culprit — a firefighter.

That's according to a video published by the New York Post, which saw fireworks blast off in front of a FDNY station in Crown Heights. The man who took the video can be heard saying firefighters lit the pyrotechnics.

"Keeping our kids up at night, beautiful," he said on the video, as the fireworks snap, crackle and pop Tuesday evening.

The video was apparently taken outside Ladder 123 on St. John's Place, near Schenectady Avenue.

It's within the 11213, where frustrated residents have called 311 at least 11 times to complain about illegal fireworks during the coronavirus lockdown, according to data.

That's relatively quiet compared to elsewhere in Brooklyn, where lockdown fireworks complaints tallied near 700 — more than twice all the complaints made going back a year. One zip code covering Flatbush and Ditmas Park had 300 complaints alone since mid-March.

And fireworks complaints jumped 4,000 percent citywide for the first two weeks of June.

FDNY officials told the Post that they would look into the Crown Heights incident.

Read the full New York Post report here.