New York building collapse: 4 NYC firefighters among 12 injured in Chinatown, A New York building collapse sent 12 people to the hospital on Thursday. The NYC building collapse first had an explosion a little before 1 p.m., this is when the call came into 911, according to CBS News on July 11, 2013.
Three of the dozen folks injured in the Chinatown building collapse were seriously injured. The rest of the injured folks, which included four NYC firefighters, suffered minor injuries.
The five story NYC building housed businesses on the first floor with apartments on the floors above. The explosion was big enough to shatter the windows on the first three floors of the building.
The cause of the collapse was not immediately known, but it wasn't the entire building that came down. The collapse happened in the rear of the building where a beauty salon stood. It is believed the explosion was caused by a gas explosion, which is what the initial inspection suggested, but there's nothing official on the cause as of yet.
The collapse left the structure intact, it was a minimal building collapse that happened from inside the building, according to Assistant Fire Chief Robert Boyce reported. A resident in his fourth floor apartment was having lunch at the time the building explosion occurred. He described it as hearing a “boom, like a bombing, like an earthquake.”
While the man whose lunch was interrupted by the explosion was able to make it out of the building on his own, he describes seeing a firefighter carrying a woman whose leg looked badly injured. Firefighters were seen using a rescue ladder bucket, pulling a man from the building. About 1:30 p.m. the fire was under control. The investigation is on-going.
Friday, July 12, 2013
New York building collapse: 4 NYC firefighters among 12 injured in Chinatown
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