NEW YORK — A firefighter who responded to a report of a gas leak at a home was killed Tuesday morning when the residence exploded shortly after authorities discovered a possible drug lab there, officials said. The Fire Department of New York confirmed the firefighter’s death shortly after the explosion at around 7:30 a.m. in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx. The mayor’s office tweeted that the mayor and fire commissioner went to a nearby hospital shortly after the explosion. “I was sleeping and I heard this loud bomb, explosion,” resident Barbara Nardo told WCBS-TV. “Then five minutes later, you hear police sirens, and then helicopter after helicopter after helicopter,” he said.

Source: National Post September 27, 2016 16:07 UTC