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Heard about what happened and quickly turned around to be here. and obviously it's 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 it's been an incredibly quick response. we have made our district office a command post for the first responders. we're interacting with some of the impacted families, trying to ensure that they get all the proper support possible. so i really wan...

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'd like to emphasize everything i'm 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 respond. the explosion occurred before that team could arrive. as soon as the explosion was called in, f...

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 rangel's 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. the fire is now up to five-alarm level of response. and fdny is continuing its

Describe it to the viewers, we have the live shot to the left of the screen and we have a photograph supplied by the fdny's 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 alarm is continuing on top of that and getting to five is well over 150 people. so that is for rel...

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 runs past the scene has been suspend. that brought its own form of chaos. we'll update you with the lat...