Gas explosion causes partial collapse of high-rise apartment building in NYC, no injuries reported

The city's occurrence section said it had nary contiguous reports of injuries.

NEW YORK -- A state detonation successful an flat gathering successful the Bronx caused a partial illness Wednesday morning, leaving a country of the gathering a heap of rubble.

City constabulary said they received 911 calls astir a gathering illness conscionable aft 8 a.m. Wednesday astatine the Mitchel Houses building.

"Upon arrival, officers observed a partial gathering collapse," constabulary said successful a statement.

A birds oculus drone photograph provided of the partial gathering illness successful the Bronx by the FDNY.

FDNY

The city's occurrence section said it had nary contiguous reports of injuries. It said it was responding to a study of a state detonation that collapsed an incinerator shaft successful the gathering successful the Bronx.

The remainder of the gathering appeared to beryllium unchangeable with nary apartments affected, but that was being investigated by the Department of Buildings.

The gathering is city-owned nationalist housing. Multiple messages seeking remark were near with the Housing Authority.

Video from the country shows a high-rise with 1 country collapsed from the crushed level to the roof. Videos by adjacent residents showed a unreality of particulate billowing implicit the artifact moments aft the collapse.

Mayor Eric Adams said helium was briefed astir the exigency and officials were inactive getting a afloat assessment. "Please debar the country for your safety," helium wrote connected X.

Incinerator shafts successful New York City buildings were erstwhile utilized to dispose of trash, which was past burned connected site. But they person mostly been replaced with trash compactors, which tin usage the aforesaid chutes.

In July 2023, a towering operation crane caught occurrence precocious supra the West Side of Manhattan, causing its agelong limb to drawback off, smash against a adjacent gathering and plummet to the thoroughfare arsenic radical ran for their lives connected the sidewalk below. Several radical suffered insignificant injuries successful the collapse, but nary 1 died.

The Associated Press and WABC contributed to this report.