Pic: Huge fireball in Manhattan manhole fire


A large fireball sparked by an underground electrical transformer broke out on 6th Avenue between 19th and 20th Streets in Manhattan today, gutting a Radio Shack and damaging a few other businesses.

The Daily Intel has a picture of the fireball, and quotes a witness on the explosion:

“As far as I could tell, firefighters seemed to be putting out a routine fire,” event planner Austin Riggs, who took this picture of the explosion as he was walking back to his office after a trip to City Bakery, told Daily Intel. “And then all of sudden there was this huge flame ball. I could feel the heat on my face.”

An Apex Technical School and a Bally’s Gym were also damaged, although the extent of the damage is not currently known.

The New York Fire Department first received reports of smoke emanating from a manhole cover at 10:44 am. The explosion occurred 37 minutes after the NYFD dispatched personnel to investigate the report. There have been no injuries or deaths reported, and the New York Times has a timeline of events here.

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