New York City construction crane catches on fire before collapse

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[V_TWIN]

New York City authorities are warning the public to avoid an area of Manhattan Wednesday morning as users on social media are sharing videos and images of a construction crane on fire following a partial collapse

[V_TWIN]

What a mess

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-construction-crane-catches-fire-collapse

[Yo-Yo]

Twitter video of crane collapse: https://twitter.com/i/status/1684174933578874882

[1Old Pro]

What a mess

NYC or the crane fire. or both.

[V_TWIN]

Thank you

[V_TWIN]

NYC is a given 😏

[V_TWIN]

Crane collapse is a microcosm of the condition of nyc

[cymbeline]

I’m impressed with the crane design that the tower itself didn’t collapse.

I imagine that the fire softened some cabling and it broke.

[Bob434]

That’ll teach em to build the cranes out of wood! We had several wood stoves catch on fire, until we bought a metal one. /s of course

[Col Frank Slade]

FDNY pouring water on it from roof of building across the street.

[Bonemaker]

How does steel catch fire?

[V_TWIN]

Well if the crane had an electrical short and the fuel or hydraulic fluid ignited that could have caused the failure.....just speculating.

[TornadoAlley3]

Globull warming did this.

[absalom01]

Diesel engine. Hard, but obviously not impossible to set the fuel on fire.

[T.B. Yoits]

I’m a bit surprised that the insurance companies don’t require such cranes to have fire suppression systems installed in the engine compartment and operator’s cab.

[V_TWIN]

It wouldn’t be the 1st time safety systems were circumvented to kept the job going.

Worked in aviation maintenance for 36 years, 17 of that in quality assurance....saw people pull that crap more times than I care to remember.