New York investigators working with federal authorities also searched the chiefs’ offices at the department’s headquarters as part of an inquiry into whether they inappropriately accepted payments.
Crews responded shortly after 5:30 a.m. on Friday, a city official said. The fire is in a complex that once housed the country’s first Singer sewing machine factory.
Japan Airlines said all 367 passengers and 12 crew members had evacuated the jet. Five crew members in a Coast Guard plane that reportedly collided with the jet were unaccounted for.