Eight NYPD officers injured in massive explosion while responding to knife-wielding man in Queens home

At slightest 8 constabulary officers were injured successful a Queens, New York, detonation Thursday aft responding to calls that a knife-wielding antheral was threatening radical wrong a home.

New York Police Department (NYPD) officers responded to calls astir a home quality involving a knife-wielding antheral astatine a residence successful the Ozone Park neighborhood, NYPD Assistant Chief Christopher McIntosh said Thursday morning.

NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch aboriginal released shocking constabulary assemblage camera footage showing officers approaching the residence's doorway earlier being blown backmost by a fiery explosion.

One serviceman is heard asking, "what's his name?" earlier a fiery detonation blows unfastened the doorway. Officers scramble to cheque connected 1 different amid the debris.

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"The feline conscionable lit the location connected fire," 1 serviceman says. "We person an explosion." 

Officers are seen attempting to region respective crying children from the chaotic country and cheque connected different occupants.

"Here is video of the heroic actions that members of the NYPD took this greeting to rescue children and adults from a burning location successful Queens," Tisch wrote connected X Thursday afternoon. "They were hurt. They had conscionable been thrown to the crushed by an explosion. And successful that moment, with nary wide consciousness of what other they mightiness beryllium walking into, they made the determination to support moving forward. Their absorption stayed precisely wherever it needed to be: connected the radical inside, connected getting those children out, and connected making definite that concern didn’t assertion guiltless lives."

At an earlier quality conference, McIntosh told reporters that astatine 2:42 a.m., officers responded to a 911 telephone for a home quality with a knife.

"The telephone was placed by a household subordinate of the victim, who stated that her antheral comparative arrived astatine their residence intoxicated and equipped with a knife, and determination was a odor of state successful the residence," McIntosh said.

Anroop Parasaram, 50, was equipped with a knife, forced his mode into the basement flat of a three-family location and "began menacing and threatening the remaining unfortunate with a knife," McIntosh said.

Firefighters conflict a five-alarm blaze successful Queens, New York. The archetypal blast knocked aggregate NYPD officers disconnected of their feet connected Thursday, April 30, 2026. (FOX5 New York)

"Our officers were astatine the beforehand doorway of the residence attempting to participate erstwhile abruptly a monolithic fiery detonation erupted astatine 2:57 a.m. The officers were violently... aggregate officers were thrown disconnected their feet with immoderate being launched into gates astatine the beforehand of the residence," McIntosh said.

Officers past went into the engulfed gathering to rescue remaining residents.

Eight officers were treated for insignificant burns and 1 of them received stitches for caput lacerations.

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"I privation to beryllium clear, we got precise fortunate today, this could person turned retired truly differently," McIntosh stated.

Officers person inactive not located Parasaram, who is inactive "unaccounted for," McIntosh revealed astatine the time.

Parasaram, who had 3 expired extortion orders against him by household members, came to the location carrying 2 garbage bags containing state cans and an chartless substance, McIntosh said.

Sixteen radical surviving successful the three-family location oregon successful adjacent homes person been displaced by the blaze, Fire Department of New York's (FDNY) John Esposito told the quality conference.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani besides weighed successful connected the situation.

Firefighters conflict a ample blaze successful the Ozone Park vicinity of Queens, New York. The occurrence came aft a home quality successful which 50-year-old Anroop Parasaram allegedly carried garbage bags with state cans into the location connected Thursday April 30, 2026. (FOX5 New York)

"I've been briefed connected this horrific concern involving a quality that led to an detonation and occurrence successful Queens. It near aggregate radical injured and displaced, including 7 members of the NYPD and 1 firefighter — each of whom sustained insignificant injuries and are successful unchangeable condition," Mamdani wrote successful a Thursday greeting station connected X.

"I'm grateful to our NYPD officers, FDNY firefighters, and EMS members who rushed to the scene, rescuing residents and worked nether highly hard conditions to support New Yorkers safe. I'm wishing each those injured a swift recovery, and I convey our officers and firefighters for their bonzer bravery successful the look of a analyzable and unsafe situation. We're continuing to enactment displaced residents and, arsenic FDNY and NYPD unit behaviour debris removal and searches astatine this progressive scene, and moving to relationship for anyone who whitethorn stay missing portion the probe continues," Mamdani concluded.

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