Posted on 03/26/2015 12:42:01 PM PDT by rightistight
A building has at least partially collapsed in Manhattan after witnesses reported an explosion:
Reports are that people are trapped inside.
We will have more details as they emerge.
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Not good
Place your bets:
1. Gas leak
2. Meth lab
3. Unemployed Muslim youths
St Marks Place. Maybe a gas leak because there is a restaurant on the bottom.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/explosion-shreds-east-village-restaurant-article-1.2163547
Exacta on 2) and 3).
Loose Change nuts throwing out conspiracy theories in 3...2...1...
Gas leak.
Making pot oil, I’ll bet.
MJ.
Happens allll the time in Calif.
“We” will have more?
You mean YOU will steal more.
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Single-source blogpimp.
When new facts come out, you’ll stick ‘em on your blog and claim credit.
Wow the flames are red hot. Live feed on CNN.
For some reason the fire department was unable to start a water flow on the building for the first 10 minutes. It’s now spread to a second building.
Judging by the looks of the neighborhood, the explosion must have caused at least $2 million in improvements.
New York is one of the least likely places to find a meth lab. That’s more for small town folk.
Gas leak would be my guess.
Gas leak most likely. Many of the buildings in Manhattan are quite old and unfortunately the quality of the natural gas lines can be questionable at times (you get explosions like this every few years).
The property down there is very valuable.
CNN now reporting it’s a gas explosion.
Gas leaks happen all the time in NYC - especially with a restaurant on the ground floor.
We had one in my building once and I was out there alerting people after I called FDNY...and most people said, Oh, I thought I smelled gas but I wasn’t sure I should call ConEd or the Fire Department. This because landlords got upset if you called in a gas leak. I called in to FDNY and there was a truck out there in no time, they shut off the gas and found that a fly-by-night contractor hired by the landlord had moved a stove and forgotten to turn off the gas connection. With one spark...including an electrical spark, such as a light switch or door bell, the entire building could have gone up if the gas had accumulated much more.
The thing that stunned me was the passivity of everybody sitting there smelling gas and not doing anything. But with virtually every gas explosion in New York, you’ll see interviews with the neighbors, who said, “Well, I thought I smelled gas all day, but I didn’t want to call...”
Why not?
You were too slow.
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