NEW YORK (AP) — A massive brick chimney running 20 stories up the side of a New York City apartment building collapsed after an explosion Wednesday, sending tons of debris plummeting to the ground.

Mayor Eric Adams said no injuries or deaths were reported in the collapse of the chimney, which rose up from the public housing building’s boiler room. Officials notified of an explosion in the Bronx just after 8 a.m. were trying to determine if there was a gas leak.

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The falling bricks buried a sidewalk, landed on the building’s playground and sent a cloud of dust billowing over the block. Video shows a portion of the chimney that rose above the roof line crumbling last and then tumbling to the ground.

“We avoided a major disaster here,” said Bronx Borough President Va

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