NYPD auto impound with DNA, vehicle evidence is ‘burning down’: officials

The NYPD’s massive Brooklyn auto pound — which stores DNA evidence and vehicles suspected of being used in crimes — was “burning down” as fire engulfed it Tuesday, fire officials said.

Enormous plumes of smoke and flames shot from the Erie Basin Auto Pound on Columbia Street in Red Hook after the blaze erupted at 10:37 a.m. — amounting to an “absolutely’’ a devastating loss, NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said.

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