The Rooster
"Okeydoke"
It was a year ago there was a gas explosion in East Harlem.
March 12, 2014
By Marc Santora
The call to Consolidated Edison (click here) came at 9:13 a.m. on Wednesday: The smell of gas, detectable the night before, had strengthened around two buildings by 116th Street and Park Avenue in East Harlem.
Less
than 20 minutes later, the buildings were gone, leveled by a tremendous
explosion whose tremors could be felt more than a mile away.
The
blast, which city officials said was touched off by a gas leak, killed
at least three people and wounded at least two dozen more, including two
critically. Rescue workers continued to search the rubble well into the
night, hoping to find the nine occupants of the buildings who were
still missing late Wednesday....
In March of 2015 there is still another gas explosion in NYC killing two people. There is something very wrong here and I am not talking the newly homeless.
NYC has no regular inspections of gas lines or a building's energy integrity to prevent gas explosions? This is getting to be a problem because of negligence. The energy infrastructure of NYC has to be assessed for the danger that lies within it. This is not a minor matter. I don't consider deaths of citizens a light matter.
There is a problem. It is happening regularly and it needs attention.
March 30, 2015
By Sarah Kaplan
Nicholas Figueroa (click here) was a bowling alley employee out for a lunch date with a co-worker. Moises Ismael Locón Yac was a busboy with plans to return to his home in Guatemala, where a girlfriend was waiting for him. Both had been missing since Thursday afternoon, when a violent explosion and fire tore through Sushi Park, the restaurant where they were eating and working, and transformed a block of Manhattan’s East Village into a disaster site.
The chances that they had survived were slim, Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Esposito acknowledged Saturday, as the scramble to save the living and subdue the fire that leveled three buildings turned into a grim search for the dead. Piles of debris were scooped up by heavy machinery and then dumped onto the street, where rescue workers combed through the heaps of brick and ash with rakes. Specially trained dogs were sent into the rubble to sniff for human remains....
NYC has no regular inspections of gas lines or a building's energy integrity to prevent gas explosions? This is getting to be a problem because of negligence. The energy infrastructure of NYC has to be assessed for the danger that lies within it. This is not a minor matter. I don't consider deaths of citizens a light matter.
There is a problem. It is happening regularly and it needs attention.
March 30, 2015
By Sarah Kaplan
Nicholas Figueroa (click here) was a bowling alley employee out for a lunch date with a co-worker. Moises Ismael Locón Yac was a busboy with plans to return to his home in Guatemala, where a girlfriend was waiting for him. Both had been missing since Thursday afternoon, when a violent explosion and fire tore through Sushi Park, the restaurant where they were eating and working, and transformed a block of Manhattan’s East Village into a disaster site.
The chances that they had survived were slim, Emergency Management Commissioner Joseph Esposito acknowledged Saturday, as the scramble to save the living and subdue the fire that leveled three buildings turned into a grim search for the dead. Piles of debris were scooped up by heavy machinery and then dumped onto the street, where rescue workers combed through the heaps of brick and ash with rakes. Specially trained dogs were sent into the rubble to sniff for human remains....
