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We don't know the extent of the injuries. we know there are over 100 firefighters on the scene. if you look at the middle of the smoke you can see some of them on the adjacent apartment right next door on the roof. >> on the roof and on top of the ladder in the bucket there, real heroes in progress, in action. i want to go to tiwa chang. in the neighborhood of the fire. >> greg, i'm at 115th street and lexington avenue, two blocks from where this happened. some people just told me, a lot of people are wandering on the street, a lot of first-responders and ambulances. i see con edison pulling u...

Associated press has it this way. fire department a major emergency response in east harlem. this would be on the outer edge of central park toward the northern part of the island of manhattan. fire department of new york says it received report of a possible explosion and building collapse around the area of park avenue, 114th street. no immediate reports of injuries. wabc, the screen left picture you're watching there, say that residents heard a large explosion inside of an apartment building around 9:00 this morning which would have been an hour and four minutes ago. the fire reported in th...

Liz? >> hi, guys. 115th and madison still. i met blanca, at the scene of the es explosion. tell us a little bit about what happened, blanca. >> i stopped. went off at 115. went to the deli. as i was coming out of deli a few seconds, explosion just like really, really big. it was a lady, two ladies and me and another gentleman waiting to go into the store. all of sudden we heard this big explosion and fire. fire was really coming out. we called 911 to try to get the cops here and everything. then the cardboard flew and it had like big nails and everything. it fell, we all hunched down to protec...

Neighboring buildings that has to be evacuated out of the area and get into that area with the rubble and look for survivors. >> the thick, the smoke is so thick right now, people even walking nearby can be affected by this. it can really overtake you. >> live pictures right now of an active fire, a huge fire on park avenue between 116th street and 111th street. at 9:31 according to reports that is when the explosion happened, followed by at least a partial building collapse and this fire that still rages out of control. >> yeah, we're hearing from people in the neighborhood. they say that thi...

>> no it is not. as much water you see going on there, doesn't mean all water is getting to the fire. >> i also wanted to ask, what kind of explosives or what kind of flammable liquid would be inside that building that caused quite a commotion, basically you know, collapsed two buildings and spread debris all over the place and felt 35 blocks away? >> yeah, well i'm not sure if you felt it 35 blocks away. people might say they did. that's pretty fire. enormous explosion from buildup of gas. whether or not there were flammable liquid in there i have no idea but i didn't see any black smoke, did...