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Fire breaks out on Brooklyn Bridge during New York's fireworks show 2%
By The Associated Press63%
7/5/2026, 3:08:14 AM
Keywords: Fires
BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Appeal to Authority, and Hasty Generalization, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 16% saturation with 23 hits. Analysis detected 103 faulty-reasoning hits from 144 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 10.9% and a BS Rank of 2% (21,547 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 98.40% of the article peer group.
NEW YORK -- A fire broke out on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York during the city's July Fourth fireworks show, spreading flames and setting off a plume of smoke before firefighters extinguished the blaze.
No injuries were reported.
Two fire engines were used to put out the blaze, the city's fire department said.
Firefighters were seen dousing the flames shortly before 10 p.m. on the bridge, which had been closed to traffic during the show.
A department spokesperson said such fires are not unexpected and are why officials keep crowds at a distance during fireworks.
The show was moved up early because of the threat of severe weather that canceled and delayed other celebrations along the East Coast.
That includes Washington, where storm prompted an evacuation of crowdgoers on the National Mall.
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