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HOT DOG BLAZE

A posh Upper East Side corner turned into an old-fashioned weenie roast today.

A hot-dog cart caught fire, shooting flames up the awning of Ralph Lauren’s store before firefighters extinguished it with no injuries or further damage.

“I turned on the hose and lit the fire and ‘Boom!’ ” shaken cart worker Alla Ali, 50, said of the 9 a.m. blaze. “It’s hard to breathe. I’m shocked and scared.”

The FDNY blamed the blaze on frayed edges on the hose connecting the tank and cooking area of Ali’s cart.Samuel Goldsmith