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Heard about what happened and quickly turned around to be here. and obviously its an extremely anxious time for the constituents that live here, for the families that have been impacted. but i want to praise and give thanks to the first responders, not only the fdny, the nypd and all agencies. the level of professionalism is not to be questioned and its been an incredibly quick response. we have made our district office a command post for the first responders. were interacting with some of the i...

Efforts to contain the fire and then in the coming hours, to finally put the fire out. there was no warning in advance from the information we have now, id like to emphasize everything im telling you is based on preliminary information. this is the best information we have at this moment and is by definition preliminary. but from what we know now, the only indication of danger came about 15 minutes earlier when a gas leak was reported to con edison. con ed dispatched a team immediately to respon...

Tom fariela. also would like to welcome john mcevoy, the president and ceo of con ed, who is us. and thank council member inez dickens for being here. and we have representative of congressman rangels office as well. so today, at approximately 9:30 a.m., there was a major explosion that destroyed two buildings. the explosion was based on a gas leak. the impact affected buildings around the two that were destroyed, very heavy impact on the surrounding buildings. a heavy fire has ensued as well. t...

Describe it to the viewers, we have the live shot to the left of the screen and we have a photograph supplied by the fdnys twitter account that shows the firefighters at work. so you can see here what the firefighters are dealing with. this is being referenced as a 5-alarm fire. can you walk us through what determines a fire alarm fire and what is the biggest challenge? >> the biggest challenge is trying to get someone in there. five alarm is the first unit comes -- first is 30-40 people and the...

Jon: fox news alert now. we are expecting the news conference from the fire department any moment from now, on a deadly explosion that took place in new york city about three hours ago. the associated press are reporting that two people are known dead, 17 others are injured. the powerful blast leveled two buildings on park avenue in upper manhattan. emergency crews were handing out masks as smoke poured from the two collapsed apartment buildings. service on the metro-north commuter line that run...

We have nypd emergency management crews saying is anybody trapped in building? it all happened quickly. the church is on the group floor. we had a chance to speak to many people in the area. all whom they said that the entire neighborhoods rocked. what other buildings buildings a need to be stablized and very concerned evacuations are continuing. right now i tell you and you can see smoke continues to billow up in the air. i sent video i did on walk and talk you will take a look at in a short wh...

Some are taking a seat. hazmat is out after 15 minutes because of the breathing. >> the former commissioner of the fire department here. thank you for in sight. back with more in a moment. back with more in a moment. save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.ould yep, everybody knows that. well, did you know the ancient pyramids

Fdny is now again in the process of putting out the fire. con-ed is in the process of shutting down all gas mains going into this building. but that is a detailed and complicated process that requires digging up the ground and a lot of manual labor to turn off all the different supplies of gas to the building. this is a tragedy of the worst kind because there was no indicationcation in time -- indication in time to save people. we know we lost two people already. we know at this moment, prelimin...

Fire is now up to five-alarm level of response. and, fdny is continuing its efforts to contain the fire and then in the coming hours to finally put the fire out. there was no warning in advance from the information we have now. i would like to emphasize everything that im telling you is based on preliminary information. this is the best information we have at this moment. it is by definition preliminary. but from what we know now the only indication of danger came about 15 minutes earlier when a...

That is still burning. the fire results is still burning. jamie, what can you tell jamie may not hear you. >> forgive me, jon. jon, can you hear me? jon: we can hear you now. >> jon, i can hear you. jon: go ahead, jamie. >> forgive us for the mask, jon. the air is bit dangerous right now. hopefully you can hear me. fdny is continuing to come. at this point it is considered a four-alarm fire. they have 11 injuries described as not necessarily serious. there is one person in the hospital that may ...