Developing News- Building Collapses in New York

[tunatartare]

From CNN.com
NEW YORK (CNN) -- An explosion and fire leveled a residential building on New York's Upper East Side Monday morning, fire officials and eyewitnesses told CNN.

At least one person was transported to the hospital, New York firefighters told CNN personnel on the scene.

Ann McGovern, a neighbor across the street from the three-story E. 62nd Street location, told CNN she "witnessed two bloody people exiting the building just minutes after the explosion."

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My coworker who lives three blocks away from the building told me about this.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

My friend works directly across the street. No one answered his office telephone number so I assume that either his building was evacuated or they couldn't even get into the office since this happened at 8:30 AM.

I'm in the area and had heard sirens for almost two hours.

The four story townhouse building which exploded contains doctors' offices and a duplex apartment where apparently a doctor lives.

The blast might have been caused by a suicidal doctor. http://www.wnbc.com/news/9490570/detail.html

ETA: I just heard that my friend who works across the street is fine. It's chaotic in that area.

[Tom Earp]

OOPs.

I heard a natural gas leak and not terrosists!

[f8nacn]

That is just ridiculous...to take your life, endanger others, because you can't pay your debt and you are going through a bitter divorce...not worth it.

[macallan25]

Captain Obvious?

[DeltAlum]

I just looked up "Mentally Unbalanced" in the dictionary, that his guy's picture was right next to the definition.

[PhiPsiRuss]

I'm willing to bet that this guy's lawyers will shoot for temporary insanity. I hope that he just gets to spend a lot of time in Sing Sing.