But I looked outside and debris was coming out. “Then I thought maybe a car from the street banged into my restaurant. “I was inside when I heard the BOOM so I got a little scared,” Rahman said.
The manager of Dallas BBQ, Ataur Rahman, told PIX11 was scared when he heard the explosion.
A man then climbed up a ladder leading to the fire escape, extended his hand, and helped the woman down to the sidewalk to safety. The woman was struggling to get down as concerned pedestrians scrambled to try to help her. “What happened? Oh my God!” a woman can be heard yelling.īystanders rush to the aid of a man laying in the rubble, who appears to have been blown out of the building.Īround the same time, a screaming woman found herself trapped on a fire escape, her rescue coming from a man who climbed up to her on a ladder shortly below thick smoke began to billow from the doomed building. The restaurant shared the five-story building with apartments on the upper floors. People can be seen frantically running out of the Sushi Park restaurant at 121 Second Ave. The call for the blaze came in at 3:17p.m., and firefighters were there in less than three minutes, according Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro.ĭramatic cellphone video shows the terrifying moments after an explosion rocked an East Village building Thursday afternoon. The fire completely gutted the residential building with the Japanese restaurant Sushi Park on the first floor, leaving only the brick exterior as the floors collapsed on top of each other into a heap of rubble. Marks Place, igniting the structure and three adjacent building - 119, 123, and 125 - as the flames tore through the roof. The massive blast tore through a five-story building at 121 E. He says the meter didn’t pass the inspection, meaning it wasn’t ready for gas to be introduced, AP reported. There are no reports of any missing people.Ĭon Ed was at the building at 2 p.m., an hour before the explosion, to inspect work being done there - that work was found to be “unacceptable.” Con Ed President Craig Ivey, quoted by the AP, says the crews were there to evaluate a planned installation of a second meter in a now-collapsed building where construction was going on Thursday. The mayor says the explosion appears to have been related to plumbing and gas work at 121 Second Ave. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĮAST VILLAGE, Manhattan (PIX11) - A massive explosion apparently connected to gas and plumbing work at an East Village building sparked a vast seven-alarm fire that spread to four buildings, leaving at least 19 people injured, four seriously, according to officials and Mayor Bill de Blasio. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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