UPDATED: Pre-arrival video & FDNY radio traffic from deadly East Harlem building explosion
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Video above is pre-arrival video from Wednesday deadly explosion in East Harlem. It shows bystanders bringing one injured person out of the rubble to safety and the fire starting to grow.
Video immediately below is from Shane P. Kennedy who was on an MTA bus that was passing through as the explosion occurred. You will also see a taxi that was damaged by the blast.
Further below is FDNY radio traffic below provided by Rafael Fernandez.
Marc Santora, The New York Time:
The call to Consolidated Edison came at 9:13 a.m. on Wednesday: The smell of gas, detectable the night before, had strengthened around two buildings by 116th Street and Park Avenue in East Harlem.
Less than 20 minutes later, the buildings were gone, leveled by a tremendous explosion whose tremors could be felt more than a mile away.
The blast, which city officials said was touched off by a gas leak, killed at least three people and wounded at least two dozen more, including two critically. Rescue workers continued to search the rubble well into the night, hoping to find the nine occupants of the buildings who were still missing late Wednesday.
Three people are dead and at least nine people are missing after a massive explosion rocked East Harlem Wednesday morning, leveling two buildings and sending smoke and flames billowing into the air.
At least 70 others were also injured in the blast, which happened at 9:31 a.m. Wednesday on Park Avenue at 116th Street, 1010 WINS reported.
While the FDNY only listed 27 injured patients, many others came to hospitals independently and were not treated by the department.
The explosion reduced two five-story buildings to rubble. It also shattered store windows for blocks and hurled glass, bricks and other debris throughout the neighborhood.
