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NEW YORK (WABC) –
One person was killed and five others injured in a fire accident on the Brooklyn Bridge Wednesday morning.
Four cars crashed on Brooklyn's side just after 7 am, causing a fire that engulfed three of the vehicles and blocked a key New York City artery early in the morning, when one of the days the busiest of the day.
The fire sent a column of black smoke rising above the historical distance.
Motorists stranded by the wreckage got out of their car to watch a swarm of firefighters extinguish the fire.
The entire bridge was closed to traffic for about an hour and major traffic jams continued to spread on the surrounding roads even as it reopened, starting with the tracks to Manhattan.
Photographs showed the charred carcasses of three vehicles and a fourth a few meters away, damaged.
The wreckage occurred on a portion of the bridge, above the Brooklyn side of the East River, near the point where drivers engage to exit ramps and surface roads.
The fire was also a few meters from a place where crowds of tourists entered the pedestrian and cycle path of the bridge.
(Associated Press contributed to this report)
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