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    Massive explosion levels 2 buildings in NYC

    CBS NEWSMarch 12, 2014, 10:08 AM

    Massive explosion levels 2 buildings in NYC; 2 dead

    NEW YORK -- An explosion leveled two buildings Wednesday morning in East Harlem, sending flames and smoke billowing into the air, killing at least two people and injuring more than a dozen others, CBS New York reports.


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    Explosion collapses NYC buildings

    It happened around 9 a.m. on Park Avenue on 116th Street, the FDNY said. One of the buildings that collapsed had a piano repair shop with apartments above. The second building housed a church.Officials believe both buildings were 5-stories. Evacuations are under way in the area.

    WCBS reports at least two people, both female, were killed in the explosion. The FDNY says 17 injuries have also been reported, four serious and 12 minor. Harlem Hospital says it received one patient with serious trauma.



    Video from the scene shows huge flames and billowing smoke as hundreds of firefighters battle the blaze, which was upgraded to five-alarms. Debris and rubble could be seen scattered all over the area.
    Witnesses reported hearing a loud explosion.

    "I was home and then next thing you know I'm laying down and I hear this big explosion. I came out, looked up and a building was just gone," eyewitness Mack Mayor told CBS 2. "It's just like a war zone out here."


    "The smoke started to rise. It looked like something fell because it wasn't like a fire. It just looked like debris smoke, similar to 9/11," said witness Samuel Paul, who was on the 15th floor of a building on 125th Street.


    Federal officials tell CBS News early indications are that the building explosion is the result of a gas leak. Con Edison confirms there were crews en route to the area at the time of the explosion after the company received a call Wednesday morning from a woman who smelled gas.

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    Church owner on collapsed building: We smelled gas last night

    Carmen Vargas-Rosa, who owns the church, said there was a gas odor nearby Tuesday night."Last night when we came out of church, at the corner outside in the street there was a smell of gas," she said. "It would come and go, so I thought it was from the corner store there so I went to the owners and told them and they said they would look into it and then we went home."

    It's unclear if anyone was inside the buildings at the time of the explosion, but Vargas-Rosa said four of her tenants are unaccounted for


    "One of them was off from work so most likely she was in the building," Vargas-Rosa said. "We have a mother who has a sick son, so unless they were at an appointment in the hospital, they may have been in the explosion and then we have a young man and his wife who go to school late so they may have been sleeping and we can't reach them."
    Mayor Bill de Blasio is en route to the scene. The NYPD has ruled out terrorism as a cause of the explosion, but the bomb squad and the FBI are both on the scene.

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    said the explosion happened adjacent to their tracks.

    Service in and out of Grand Central Terminal is suspended until further notice.


    The bomb squad is also responding as a precaution.


    Many took to Twitter and began posting pictures of smoke rising from the area.


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    NYC mayor: 'A number of missing individuals'

    Two buildings have collapsed in an explosion in New York City. At least two deaths and 18 injuries are reported. DEVELOPING STORY




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    1. 2 Dead, 18 Hurt, Others Missing in Explosion ... - NBC New York

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    Two Dead, at Least 55 Injured, Several Missing in NYC Building Explosion

    ABC News - ‎3 minutes ago‎
    Two people were killed and at least 55 were injured today when a suspected gas explosion tore through a building in Manhattan's East Harlem neighborhood, collapsing at least part of the structure, authorities said. . .
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    Gas blast destroys 2 NY buildings; 3 people dead

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    NEW YORK (AP) - A gas leak triggered an earthshaking explosion that flattened two apartment buildings on Wednesday, killing at least three people, injuring more than 60 and leaving nine missing. . .
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    Death toll rises to 7 in East Harlem explosion.

    New York Daily News - ‎13 minutes ago‎
    The death toll from the East Harlem explosion rose to seven Thursday as city officials said the smoldering site had no history of gas leaks. . .
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    Eighth Body Found in New York City Building Explosion

    ABC News - ‎32 minutes ago‎
    The death toll in Wednesday's suspected gas explosion and building collapse in New York City has risen to eight, with four additional victims pulled out of the still-smoldering rubble this morning and one body discovered this evening. . .
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