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The Steam Waves on Fifth Avenue in New York, Thursday, July 19, 2018. A steam pipe exploded under Fifth Avenue in Manhattan early Thursday, sending pieces of asphalt flying, a geyser of steam. White steam stories in the air and forcing pedestrians to
- A steam pipe exploded under Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Thursday morning.
- The pipe was nearly 100 years old and was thrown 10 times in the air, in addition to
- Officials evacuated 49 buildings nearby, but then determined that there was no had no threat of asbestos.
Officials ordered the evacuation of 49 buildings along 5th Street in Manhattan after the explosion of a steamboat. the possibility of a carcinogenic asbestos released in the blast.
The explosion, which occurred at 6:40 am on Thursday morning, left five people wounded, including three civilians. People who could have come into contact with material released in the blast were warned by officials to take a shower immediately and bag their clothes because of fears of asbestos
. Steam pipe dates from almost a century ago. "Said Mayor Bill de Blasio about eight hours after the blast, but" the air has dissipated fairly quickly after the incident … there is no no significant presence of asbestos in the air at this stage. [19659009] (PLUS: Oregon Wildfire Turns Deadly )
Nevertheless, workers continued to wear masks and their vehicles were watered.
De Blasio said that it could take days to check and clean the buildings, including 28 in a "hot zone" closer to the site where the explosion left a crater of about 6 meters by 4.5 meters in the street.
It was not immediately determined what caused the blast in the 20-inch pipe. The Mayor said that no work was done on the pipe at that time
Daniel Lizio-Katzen, 42, was driving his bike to the West Village when he saw the plume of the High pressure steam explosion
. "It was a pretty violent blast," Lizio-Katzen told the Daily News. "The steam was rising in the air at about 70 feet, it was pushing at such a pressure that it was spitting all that dirt and debris … The cars were covered in mud … That left a huge crater" [19659010] Brendan Walsh, 22, a former University of New York, had just got off a train and was heading to class when he saw the plume and "a large amount of debris. stood behind the police line when a Con Ed employee came rushing on the police and firefighters to push everyone north because he feared that there might be explosions of secondary manholes. "
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Businesses were fortified for the worst that the response dragged on and the Police and firefighters blocked access to nearby buildings from the explosion, stalling their neighborhood and their day's work.The subway trains were diverted around the blast zone. [19659010] Similar explosions throughout the year have drawn attention to the aging infrastructure beneath the streets of the country's largest city, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said pipe that was blown was installed in 1932.
More than 100 miles of steam pipes circulate in Manhattan, providing heating and cooling systems in thousands of buildings, and the pipes share the overcrowded subterranean with tunnels. subway and commuter trains, telecommunications and electrical cables and water pipes.
A July 2007 explosion ripped a deep crater in an intersection near Grand Central Terminal and sent a geyser to a woman dead from a heart attack while she was running away. Dozens of people were injured; some have suffered horrible burns or limbs have been cut.
The 2007 blast occurred after water had accumulated in a manhole and the traps supposed to have eased pressure clogged. Thursday was just one day after the 11th anniversary
Another manhattan stunt pipe explosion, in August 1989 in the Gramercy Park neighborhood, killed a resident and two workers of Con Ed.
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