marine support center. but what happens there? it s a recruiting office. recruiting office, okay. obviously, so they have like an army, national guard, air force, marines. all that right there together. just for our viewers know, we have a tweet coming from the chattanooga mayor, andy burke. we can put it up on the screen for you. horrific incident in our community, we will release details as they are confirmed. prayers to all of those affected. this, obviously, seems to be happening as we speak. what is in that neighborhood? you have your store, your restaurant, navy reserve center and what else is in that neighborhood? who lives nearby there? just a credit company here in the complex and a piano store and a mattress firm and that s about all. couple little integrity staff and service to get jobs. we re a fairly small complex. all right, gina mule, thank
the neighboring areas? how are they approaching this? it is challenge because there is debris shooting out east, north, west and south so it difficult to spetalk about the injuries. and i don t know how many apartment units there were. it is hard to say how many would be home. it was after the beginning of the work day. the hospital reports are showing it isn t overwhelming. on the right side of the screen is a shot of what the buildings looked like before the explosion. the blue awning was the piano store. on the left was the spanish christian church.
you can see the crews working in smoke and soot and ash covering the windshields of cars. con edison crews, the power company here now. just a short time ago, you all reported, there is the cents from con edison that perhaps this blast was caused by a gas leak. these two buildings that were affected, one, as i said, not there anymore. we do not know the condition of the second building. they simply do not know at this point. it is well manned here. 39 up its from the new york fire department. 168 members working the scene of what was a piano store, what was a spanish christian church with apartments on top of them. now, one of those buildings simply gone. i should tell you, i used to
relatively quick time. these hospitals are extremely responsive, so they are being transported based on, i imagine, any injury that might be happening, determining what the best location is for them to go to, but they are working to address all these issues and get people to safety. it s been incredible. can you do you have a sense, matthew, of exactly what building this is? because we ve gotten conflicting reports and looked at the google maps of the area based on addresses we re given, but do you know if this is purely residential or if the ground floor had some sort of business? yes, the ground floor had a piano store, above it was residential, that was a commercial space, the adjacent building was a church, which is severely damaged. the location is the west side of park avenue between 116th street and 117th street. it s a block south of the community board office.