Posted on 07/10/2006 6:05:56 AM PDT by joeystoy
Building explosion at 32 East 62nd Street. Four story building collapses and is burning. Several people reported trapped in the rubble.
Dr. Bartha.
I hope you're right.
New York Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said a gas explosion appears to be behind the blast. CNN's Larry King, who was at a nearby hotel, described the aftermath shortly after the blast Monday for CNN anchor Miles O'Brien.
Probably not - it was only one building.
It's across the street from Ron Perlman's townhouse and office, who owns Revlon. Revlon is down at 60th and Madison.
What an unusual picture.
Better hope the declaration is non terror or Hillary and Schumer will be on TV nonstop blaming the cut in their DHS funding in NY.
In a New York minute! I don't know how Tony would be able to defuse that one. Thankfully it was not a terror strike.
6 injured in NYC building gas explosion
By ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - A four-story building housing doctors' offices collapsed and burned in an apparent gas explosion Monday after what witnesses described as a thunderous explosion that rocked the neighborhood just off Madison Avenue.
Six people were injured — two passers-by, one person in the building and three firefighters, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said. He said the only occupant appeared to have been a doctor who owns the building and was rescued from the rubble.
"This could have been an even worse disaster than it already is," Scoppetta said.
Scoppetta said a gas explosion was the apparent cause.
Power company Con Edison said its crews had been responding to complaints from a gas customer at an adjacent building at the time of the blast occurred. Earlier, White House press secretary Tony Snow said there was no indication of terrorism.
Yaakov Kermaier, 36, a resident in a building next door, said he was outside when he heard "a deafening boom. I saw the whole building explode in front of me."
"Everybody started running, nobody knew what was coming next," he said. His nanny and newborn escaped from their next-door apartment unharmed.
The building on Manhattan's Upper East Side included two doctors' offices, and records show at least one apartment was in the building, Fire Department Lt. Eugene Whyte said. Authorities said a nurse who was supposed to open one of the offices arrived late, narrowly missing the explosion.
Heavy black smoke rose high above the building, wedged between taller structures on 62nd Street between Park and Madison Avenues just a few blocks from Central Park. Bricks, glass and splintered wood was littered across the block, and windows in a neighboring building were blown out.
Thad Milonas, 57, was operating a coffee cart across from the building when he said the ground shook and the building came down, said he helped two bleeding women from the scene.
TV host Larry King, who had been in a hotel room nearby, described the explosion to CNN as sounding like a bomb and feeling like an earthquake.
"I've never heard a sound like that," King said.
Streets around the area were closed off to traffic as ambulances and rescue units responded about 8:40 a.m.
The building is an upscale neighborhood where the 2000 Census put the median home price at $1 million. On one corner of the street is the high-end Luca Luca clothing store, and across the street is the French retailer Hermes.
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"When was this?"
Around 1999-2000, in South Riding, Fairfax County. I heard the bodies of the parents and child were blown across the street while they were sleeping.
Nothing to see here...move along, move along...
"Why blow up a building to commit suicide? Weird."
I agree. Why commit suicide for any financial hardship at all? Why not just move to Santa Monica pier and sell beads on the strip. Less stress.
There was an outright denial that the Tampa teen stole and crashed a plane as any sort of terrorist act yet that is exactly what his suicide note says (with the word terrorist crossed out by someone) and praise for Bin Laden.
The letter was not published for several months.
I won't ever jump to a conclusion that something is the work of terrorists or saboteurs but I also refuse to believe any quick "not a terrorist act" declaration. CLEARLY there has been at least one incident where the authorities DID know that is what it was.
Also consider the messages from the DC snipers yet Moose had the public looking for white guys in a white van. They knew there were terrorists involved.
Your post accused President Bush, VP Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Ari Fleischer, Tony Snow, and the rest of the administration of being habitual liars, who would have told the American public that 911 wasn't a terror attack if they could have gotten away with it. Last time I checked, the Clinton hacks were calling President Bush and Republicans liars, not refuting such slander.
You can also add the terrorist incident at Los Angeles International Airport to your list. (7/4/2002) The City was adamant within hours that it was not terrorist related, when in fact the gunman was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and sent his family back days prior to the incident. The FBI later confirmed it was classified as a terrorist incident.
A RAND study was ignored by the City and Department of Airports, stating the El Al counter at LAX was the number one target for terrorism in Los Angeles, and additional well-armed officers should be placed there.
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