anonnewswalker writes: “A car just blew up, literally, on Dean Street in front of the Newswalk buiding. Does anyone know what happened? The cop have not caution taped the area and are treating it as no big deal! Has anything like this happened here before?”
Laundromat Fire: Mac-Friendly Video
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Laundromat Catches Fire, Sparks Fly
Hope you picked up your drop-off (15 lbs @ 60 cents/lb) this afternoon. PICTURED: Around 6:45 PM ET today, BATT CHIEF TRAVERS shines a flashlight down the basement access staircase. Minutes earlier, an FDNY cut open the padlocked grate with a chainsaw, sparks a-flyin’ (watch the video here!). These dramatic measures led gawkers to speculate that somebody was trapped downstairs. In fact, there was nobody to rescue. I think they were just trying to access the breakers so they could shut the power off. We talked to a fireman who said he wasn’t sure whether or not it was a dryer that caught on fire, but whatever it was, it got into the wall and spread to the second floor. Check out all the exciting details in this Flickr photoset.