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NYC explosion (gas leak) (2 Viewers)

Gawain

Gawain

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Coworker got a call that her block had a gas explosion of some sort.

No other details, but I get my breaking news here, so thought I'd pass it along.

ETA: Her place is in the E Village. Maybe fire and not explosion.

ETA: 2nd and 7th. Looks like a bad manhole.

Instead of the 2nd ave dig, how about making sure the city isn't blowing up underfoot first?

https://twitter.com/search?q=nyc%20exposion&src=typd〈=en

 
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Emergency responders are rushing to the scene of an explosion at a building in Manhattan’s East Village.

The collapse was reported at around 3:20 p.m. at 7th Street and Second Avenue Thursday afternoon.

Multiple injuries have been reported, the Fire Department said.

https://twitter.com/brooke

@brooke
https://twitter.com/brookeexplosion at 7th and 2nd –
https://t.co/2vn0DmO4NLpic.twitter.com/2vn0DmO4NL
https://t.co/2vn0DmO4NL
— Brian Whalley (@bwhalley)
https://twitter.com/bwhalley/status/581175069529010176March 26, 2015
https://twitter.com/bwhalley/status/581175069529010176
There was just an explosion on 2nd avenue and 7th street east village
http://t.co/jvSbfdCSSepic.twitter.com/jvSbfdCSSe
http://t.co/jvSbfdCSSe
— Jonathan (@jmeyers44)
https://twitter.com/jmeyers44/status/581174906886483968March 26, 2
https://twitter.com/jmeyers44/status/581174906886483968

 
Ditka Butkus said:
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Emergency responders are rushing to the scene of an explosion at a building in Manhattan’s East Village.

The collapse was reported at around 3:20 p.m. at 7th Street and Second Avenue Thursday afternoon.

Multiple injuries have been reported, the Fire Department said.


https://twitter.com/brooke

@brooke
https://twitter.com/brookeexplosion at 7th and 2nd –
https://t.co/2vn0DmO4NLpic.twitter.com/2vn0DmO4NL
https://t.co/2vn0DmO4NL
— Brian Whalley (@bwhalley)
https://twitter.com/bwhalley/status/581175069529010176March 26, 2015
https://twitter.com/bwhalley/status/581175069529010176
There was just an explosion on 2nd avenue and 7th street east village
http://t.co/jvSbfdCSSepic.twitter.com/jvSbfdCSSe
http://t.co/jvSbfdCSSe
— Jonathan (@jmeyers44)
https://twitter.com/jmeyers44/status/581174906886483968March 26, 2
https://twitter.com/jmeyers44/status/581174906886483968
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I find it funny how all the 1st comments are news agencies asking for permission to use the photo.

 
Hopefully it occurring in the middle of a weekday would limit injuries, but obviously thinking of all those affected.

A very popular block on weekend nights, hell even Thursday happy hours. A few hours later and more people could have been hurt.

 
Listening to the scanner...firefighters are just amazing people. "Check out apartment 206." "10-4".

God bless.

 
I was outside in Union Square and I now reek of campfire. There was a ton of smoke blowing this way. One of my employees lives 5 doors down from the collapse. Just moved one week ago.

 
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The couple said they were eating in the sushi restaurant when a man came in and asked to use the restroom. They say he 'didn't take enough time to use the restroom and then ran out' and that's when the restaurant exploded.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3013437/Emergency-responders-rush-collapsed-New-York-City-building-40-people-trapped-inside.html#ixzz3VWdpArKp

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Highly suspect this is nothing....but, damn.

 
Gawain said:
The couple said they were eating in the sushi restaurant when a man came in and asked to use the restroom. They say he 'didn't take enough time to use the restroom and then ran out' and that's when the restaurant exploded.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3013437/Emergency-responders-rush-collapsed-New-York-City-building-40-people-trapped-inside.html#ixzz3VWdpArKp

Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
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Highly suspect this is nothing....but, damn.
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This one doesn't add up... If the explosion occurred where they were eating and they saw the man go by, they wouldn't be alive.

Heavily wager on a gas leak on this one.

Hopefully nobody killed.

 
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FTR, I smell smoke on 5th and 14th.

ETA:

In a cab by Washington Swuare Park and the smell of smoke is strong.

ETA2:

On Bowery and Bleeker and don't smell anything, maybe a little weed but that's all.

 
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Nick Vermeil said:
I was outside in Union Square and I now reek of campfire. There was a ton of smoke blowing this way. One of my employees lives 5 doors down from the collapse. Just moved one week ago.
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I hope it's not the same one who had the house fire a year or two before my house fire?

this is some seriously scary ####. and I haven't looked at the news since you wrote that... imagine it's only gotten worse.

 
Limp Ditka said:
Northern Voice said:
Scary. I believe El Floppo is East Village, likely other FBG's as well. Hopefully everyone is safe.
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Hopefully El Floppo is all good, but his scarf met a slow, painful, fiery demise
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all is fine at casa floppo. scarves too.

but dammit- picture brought back some really terrible memories of our fire. got me to watch a youtube video of it I had never seen... just how quickly it went into a giant ####-storm (our fire, not this, much worse event).

the wife walks our daughter to and from school right by there (explosion is about halfway between home and school) and we're all thankful they walked by that spot an hour earlier.

 
Officer Pete Malloy said:
104 years (and one day) after the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

I smell conspiracy.
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almost exactly a year after our most recent gas explosion up in harlem.

:(

really hoping nobody lost their lives today. looking at those pictures from earlier- that's all I kept thinking about... and that there had to have been a lot of pets lost. :(

 
Woman I work with lives in the building next door down 7th.

She can't get in, but they did manage to get her cat out to her.

Lousy situation.

 
Our babysitter's building has been vacated too.

news-wise... Sounds like there IS somebody missing/presumed-dead?

 
Swing 51 said:
El Floppo said:
Our babysitter's building has been vacated too.

news-wise... Sounds like there IS somebody missing/presumed-dead?
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Last I saw they're looking for two individuals (residents?)
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somebody at work said there were two friends at the sushi place- one was injured, the other is missing.

from the NYT:

One young man presumed missing was on a date at the restaurant, according to his family, while the police say the second missing person is a busboy. The authorities declined to officially identify him pending notification of his family.
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Hope there are no deaths. T&P for those living there. Unfortunately this will become more frequent as our infrastructure continues to crumble around us.

 
NCCommish said:
Hope there are no deaths. T&P for those living there. Unfortunately this will become more frequent as our infrastructure continues to crumble around us we spend money unwisely.
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NYC is spending a ton of money on infrastructure, just on pie in the sky ideas.

2nd Ave Subway, East Side Access...gas explosions and broken water lines.

 
Gawain said:
NCCommish said:
Hope there are no deaths. T&P for those living there. Unfortunately this will become more frequent as our infrastructure continues to crumble around us we spend money unwisely.
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NYC is spending a ton of money on infrastructure, just on pie in the sky ideas.

2nd Ave Subway, East Side Access...gas explosions and broken water lines.
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fwiw- at a macro level at least... NYC has been doing infrastructure work on Houston St around my place for almost 5 years- lots of big new pipes going in the ground.

 
Gawain said:
NCCommish said:
Hope there are no deaths. T&P for those living there. Unfortunately this will become more frequent as our infrastructure continues to crumble around us we spend money unwisely.
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NYC is spending a ton of money on infrastructure, just on pie in the sky ideas.2nd Ave Subway, East Side Access...gas explosions and broken water lines.
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60%/of the gas lines in NYC need to be replaced. They are old, with no lining and they are crumbling.

 
NCCommish said:
Gawain said:
NCCommish said:
Hope there are no deaths. T&P for those living there. Unfortunately this will become more frequent as our infrastructure continues to crumble around us we spend money unwisely.
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NYC is spending a ton of money on infrastructure, just on pie in the sky ideas.2nd Ave Subway, East Side Access...gas explosions and broken water lines.
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60%/of the gas lines in NYC need to be replaced. They are old, with no lining and they are crumbling.
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In a related note, I have a colonoscopy scheduled for next week.

 
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