On Wednesday, an explosion ripped through part of a public housing building in the south Bronx.

“The first boom sounded like construction,” resident Kiyami Fields said. “The second one was very, very loud and shook the whole entire building. I heard people screaming. It was very terrifying.”

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On Wednesday, an explosion ripped through part of a public housing building in the south Bronx

Crews said the chimney shaft collapsed, damaging the F and G apartments at NYCHA’s Mitchel Houses in Mott Haven

Dozens of families have been displaced. For those allowed back inside, they’re now without water, heat or gas

According to officials, one theory points to the building’s heating system as the cause, but they caution it’s too early to know for sure

Crews said the chimne

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