Sunday, February 22, 2015

A lot of people are saying the East Village smelled like smoke or burning tires or something tonight


[Photo tonight by William Klayer]













There hasn't been anything official yet … just a few reports of several manhole fires tonight… here and elsewhere

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Damn Biscuits!

Scuba Diva said...

My neighbors in the duplex downstairs called the fire department because they thought the smoke was originating in our boiler.

Anonymous said...

I think it was a fire on 12th street and 2nd avenue.

Anonymous said...

...I mean 1st avenue.

Anonymous said...

I was having vigorous protected sex, sorry.

Anonymous said...

The ice is melting and there are manhole fires breaking out all over, one manhole fire happened tonight over in the West Village on Horatio and Washington, plus there was a building fire on E 16th St near 3rd Ave. with 1 person in critical condition. Stay safe everyone.

IzF said...

I smelt it too

Anonymous said...

IzF: then you probably dealt it, to. Hee hee.

Anonymous said...

Around 12:30 a.m. Monday, a significant FDNY response on 16th Street between 3rd Avenue and Irving. Smoke condition, eight trucks, three ambulances, and three NYPD vehicles. No idea what happened, but more units kept rolling up.

Anonymous said...

I wish we lived in a city where you could call the police precinct and get a) someone to answer the phone, and b) an answer to a public safety question.

Anonymous said...

I agree Anon 10AM. I fucking hate that if I call the precinct they tell me to call 311 or 911. Why the fuck am I gonna call them to relay the information to you when I'm already talking to you about something happening right now?

Anonymous said...

Really, this is an everyday person's police issue that I wish Mayor De Blahs would care about.

D is for David said...

I'm near 2nd street and Ave A, and there was a smoking manhole cover in front of our building. We lost power for a while, then no heat or hot water. Heat was back this morning, but still no hot water.

Giovanni said...

A local artist and his dog were killed in the 16th St. fire near Union Sq, which was caused by a bad or overloaded extension cords. People please go check and replace all those old extension cords and get surge protectors too. Today.

Via DNAInfo.com:Artist and His Dog Die Amid Union Square Fire, Friends Say

Edward Albers was found inside 132 E. 16th St. Extension cords sparked the fatal fire, officials said.

UNION SQUARE — A loving father and artist died along with his dog in his East 16th Street apartment when extension cords sparked a fire there Monday morning, friends and officials said.

Ed Albers, 59, a Dutch-born painter, was discovered unconscious inside his third-floor apartment at 132 E. 16th St., near Third Avenue, minutes after midnight when a fire tore through, according to NYPD officials and neighbors.

"Firefighters had a ladder up to the roof. They broke out windows. There was a lot of smoke. It was coming through the walls into this building," said Demetrios Argyropoulos, who lives in the building next door.

Argyropoulos saw the FDNY try to save his neighbor.

"He was on a stretcher and they were doing chest compressions. They tried to revive him. He was just in boxer briefs. His eyes were closed. He was just out," Argyropoulos said.

Albers was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital, police said.

His beloved dog, Captain, was also killed in the fire.

"The dog was great, a big mean-looking thing with a soft heart. He was incredibly shy and skittish," said next-door neighbor and longtime friend, William Mandeville.