Posted on 03/26/2015 12:45:51 PM PDT by Red Badger
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.
The collapse occurred at 125 Second Avenue, which is a residential and commercial building.
Fire could be seen tearing through at least two buildings at the location.
The fire quickly escalated to four alarms, according to the FDNY.
Maybe a hands up don’t shoot protestor
After a closer look I saw that they are videoing the scene on their iPhone............
What would a sushi place need gas for? They don’t cook anything!
Looks like they all have their Obama phones working
Calling their peeps...........
Heating. Hot tea. Making rice...............
Obamaphones? The East Village is not a cheap/poor part of the city.
In that neighborhood, probably half of them have at least $1 million in money.
That’s horrible. I hope no one was killed or trapped. As our cities get older thins will go wrong unless regularly updated and that is expensive and very difficult because the original construction didn’t foresee the need to repair or replace.
Does anyone know what really happened yet?
I heard that was the location Of Al Sharpton’s business records. Oh NO!!!!!
I’ve never understood the ‘keep the neighborhood look like it did a hundred years ago’ mentality.
Old should be torn down to make way for new and more efficient designs.
They do it Europe as well. But they gut entire buildings, and leave the facade, so the rest of the building is new, but it still preserves the ‘old’ and I really mean OLD look..........some going back hundreds of years...........
That’s certainly a safer way of doing things. If you want to preserve an old building, you’ve got to gut it and bring it up to modern practices.
Did Hilarious’s server just get “Fosterized”??
There’s new technology being rolled out/used now that can coat the interior of the old utility lines (gas, water and sewer) with a plastic resin epoxy-type material to seal them up and make them supposedly better than new without having to dig much of anything up. They apparently have the procedures for fittings, junctions, threads etc figured out and it seems to be working very well.
It’s like being able to insert a new PVC or similar pipe inside an old, corroding iron pipe under neighborhoods, buildings and streets with minimal disruption to the area.
I’d say these older metropolitan areas with hundred-plus year-old pipes underground should accelerate the installation of this stuff. Nothing is foolproof, but it’s better than millions of people living above leaking gas lines.
So its not just me. Figured I’d get hammered for saying what I thought. Not allowed anymore you see.
I agree with you
I added my two cents to austinaero's post, but I'm with both of you.
Sure they do. They cook rice.
See my #55...could be at least a partial solution to aging infrastructure.
Yes, a woman was electrocuted a few years ago, in NYC, but she was just one of several.
Real New Yorkers are always "vigilant"....or used to be.
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