Hearth, shipyard explosion on Staten Island injures no less than 16, together with 3 critically | World Information
A fireplace and explosion at a shipyard on New York Metropolis’s Staten Island has injured no less than 16 folks. (Photograph: AP) A fireplace and explosion at a shipyard on New York Metropolis’s Staten Island has injured no less than 16 folks, together with three with severe accidents, the New York Hearth Division mentioned.
Somebody reported two staff trapped in a confined house on the dock at about 3.30 pm Friday, and responding firefighters discovered a fireplace burning within the basement of a steel construction on the dock, mentioned Joanne Mariano with the fireplace division’s press workplace.
Crews had been nonetheless combating the fireplace when a significant explosion occurred on the web site roughly 50 minutes later, she mentioned.
The hearth was nonetheless burning and emergency staff had counted 16 folks on web site with accidents by 5 pm, Mariano mentioned, together with two firefighters and one civilian with severe accidents.
It wasn’t but clear if anybody had died within the hearth and explosion. The trigger remains to be underneath investigation.
