[Photo tonight by William Klayer]
Seriously folks, why does the East Village/Lower East Side smell like burning rubber right now?
— Mikey IQ Jones (@thegreatiq) February 23, 2015@evgrieve know what that burning smell is? smells like a fire in a restaurant, part electric part meat
— beth rosner (@beth_rosner) February 23, 2015
Why is the east village filled with smoke? Hope people are ok...
— Ali B. Goode (@AliBrmBrm) February 23, 2015Please tell me I'm not the only one smelling a LOT of smoke in #AlphabetCity #EastVillage #LowerEastSide area right now...
— Madi Tsuji (@MadiTsuji) February 23, 2015Anyone else smelling heavy smoke in the air on the #LowerEastSide #EastVillage #NYC?
— Tom Krieglstein (@tomkrieglstein) February 23, 2015There hasn't been anything official yet … just a few reports of several manhole fires tonight… here and elsewhere…
@thegreatiq @evgrieve many fires/smoke in manholes. observed 3: 5th/C, 6th/C 7st/BC popping & smoldering earlier tonight
— WiFi-NY (@WiFi_NY) February 23, 2015
Damn Biscuits!
ReplyDeleteMy neighbors in the duplex downstairs called the fire department because they thought the smoke was originating in our boiler.
ReplyDeleteI think it was a fire on 12th street and 2nd avenue.
ReplyDelete...I mean 1st avenue.
ReplyDeleteI was having vigorous protected sex, sorry.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
ReplyDeleteI smelt it too
ReplyDeleteIzF: then you probably dealt it, to. Hee hee.
ReplyDeleteAround 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteI 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?
ReplyDeleteReally, this is an everyday person's police issue that I wish Mayor De Blahs would care about.
ReplyDeleteI'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.
ReplyDeleteA 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.
ReplyDeleteVia 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.