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Multiple Injuries Reported After Explosion, Collapse At East Village Building [NYC]
CBS NYC ^ | March 26, 2015 3:41 PM | sTAFF

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: newyork; nycexplosion
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To: Red Badger

Maybe a hands up don’t shoot protestor


41 posted on 03/26/2015 1:36:37 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: easternsky

After a closer look I saw that they are videoing the scene on their iPhone............


42 posted on 03/26/2015 1:39:13 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: proxy_user

What would a sushi place need gas for? They don’t cook anything!


43 posted on 03/26/2015 1:41:45 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Red Badger

Looks like they all have their Obama phones working


44 posted on 03/26/2015 1:43:30 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: easternsky

Calling their peeps...........


45 posted on 03/26/2015 1:45:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: minnesota_bound

Heating. Hot tea. Making rice...............


46 posted on 03/26/2015 1:46:09 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: easternsky
Looks like they all have their Obama phones working

Obamaphones? The East Village is not a cheap/poor part of the city.

47 posted on 03/26/2015 1:51:58 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: easternsky

In that neighborhood, probably half of them have at least $1 million in money.


48 posted on 03/26/2015 2:01:46 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Red Badger

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.


49 posted on 03/26/2015 2:03:39 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: JimSEA

Does anyone know what really happened yet?


50 posted on 03/26/2015 2:07:24 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Red Badger

I heard that was the location Of Al Sharpton’s business records. Oh NO!!!!!


51 posted on 03/26/2015 2:10:53 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: JimSEA

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...........


52 posted on 03/26/2015 2:13:09 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

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.


53 posted on 03/26/2015 2:16:45 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Red Badger

Did Hilarious’s server just get “Fosterized”??


54 posted on 03/26/2015 2:47:48 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (No such thing as micromanagement...It's always more like microMISmanagement)
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To: proxy_user

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.


55 posted on 03/26/2015 3:06:37 PM PDT by NorthWoody (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: austinaero; McGruff

So its not just me. Figured I’d get hammered for saying what I thought. Not allowed anymore you see.


56 posted on 03/26/2015 3:09:24 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: austinaero; Sequoyah101
There are too many people liberals in the world.

I agree with you

I added my two cents to austinaero's post, but I'm with both of you.

57 posted on 03/26/2015 3:16:27 PM PDT by NorthWoody (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: minnesota_bound

Sure they do. They cook rice.


58 posted on 03/26/2015 3:18:16 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: JimSEA

See my #55...could be at least a partial solution to aging infrastructure.


59 posted on 03/26/2015 3:21:24 PM PDT by NorthWoody (A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt)
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To: zigmeisterxiv
Am a born and bred Manhattanite and lived in the West Village ( Grove Street ), on my own, after college, before I was married. Once married, we moved to Gramercy Park and was living there when Billy's Ayer's "true love" and friends blew up that brownstone; so I know what I'm talking about.

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.

60 posted on 03/26/2015 3:31:13 PM PDT by nopardons (NOT READY FOPR)
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