Jaw-dropping footage showed the moment a massive explosion blew apart a Queens home Thursday morning — knocking responding NYPD cops off their feet.
Officers were at the door of a South Ozone Park home for a domestic dispute and trying to get inside with a set of keys when the Hollywood-style explosion ignited and lit up the predawn sky, according to bodycam video released by the NYPD.
Cops helped each other to their feet and into the street in the aftermath with an officer heard saying, “The guy just lit the house on fire. We have explosions.”
NYPD officers approach outside the South Ozone Park, Queens home after an explosion injured seven NYPD officers. X/@NYPDPCBut police quickly rushed back toward the residence to help survivors attempting to escape the carnage, including crying children.
“Give me the kid, give me the kid,” one cop called to a woman holding a small child.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch praised the hero cops in an X post.
“They were hurt. They had just been thrown to the ground by an explosion,” Tish said.
“And in that moment, with no clear sense of what else they might be walking into, they made the decision to keep moving forward.
A maniac allegedly set himself on fire inside his family’s Queens home, sparking a massive explosion that left eight officers and at least four other people hurt, according to police and sources. X/@NYPDPC“Their focus stayed exactly where it needed to be: on the people inside, on getting those children out, and on making sure that situation didn’t claim innocent lives.”
The maniac believed to have set off the explosion, Anrup Parasram, allegedly barged into the basement apartment of the multi-family house, where his estranged wife, daughter and two grandchildren live, according to cops and sources.
Cops believe he used an accelerate to light himself on fire, setting off the blast.
Parasram’s body was later found in the rubble after the five-alarm fire was under control, sources said.
The blast sparked a massive, five-alarm inferno that quickly spread throughout the two-and-a-half-story private home and extended to the home next door before the building dramatically collapsed. FNTVEight officers were treated for minor injuries from the fireball while four others were also hurt, police said.
Fire officials said 16 people were displaced by the inferno.
