Thursday, July 13, at about 17:30 in Manhattan’s Upper West Side caught fire three hatches located at the intersection of 71st street and Broadway. For several hours are coming out thick black smoke, and soon their fate befell three of the hatch.
Apparently, the fire was caused by overheating of electrical cables, which subsequently caught fire. But the exact cause of the fire has yet to be announced. It is known that no one was hurt.
This is crazy on 72nd st, looks like an electrical fire from a manhole #fireonbroadway pic.twitter.com/yjhbNafN4E
— rach (@rachmmitch) July 13, 2017
«It’s crazy to 72nd street, similar to an electrical fire in the manhole».
Raging manhole fire here at 71st & Broadway, but everyone seems pretty chill about it.@Gothamist @NY1 @nytimes, @NYMag @nypost pic.twitter.com/P65BC2ftOM
— Alex Etling (@AlexEtling) July 13, 2017
«A strong fire in a hatch is happening here, at the intersection of 71st street and Broadway, but it seems that all the people around do not care».
On a scene there arrived the staff of the Fire Department of new York city. They began isolating and disabling burning cables, but the process was rather slow: the situation was taken under control only to 22:00.
More 71st and Amsterdam manhole fire pic.twitter.com/EP1zdTlRhk
— Brandon Jones (@bjones3hunna) July 13, 2017
«Another video about the fire in the manhole at the intersection of 71st street and Amsterdam Avenue.»
In the fire was damaged electrical feeders, what was the cause of power outages in a dozen houses, including 2059, 2065 on Broadway and 211 in the Western part of 71st street.
Partial blackouts occurred in the homes of 222 and 225 on 71st street, where the elevators stopped working, and residents were asked to conserve energy.
The total number of local residents, who are subjected to inconveniences due to the damage electrically and feeders, is 646 people.
After extinguishing the fire, employees of municipal services began repair work. For that blocked parts of Broadway (between 70th and 71st streets) and Amsterdam Avenue (between 70th and 72nd street), 71st street (between Broadway and West End Avenue).
Energy company Consolidated Edison promised that the electricity supply will recover closer to 11:00.
