efforts to contain the fire and then in the coming hours to finally put the fire out. there was no warning. now, i would like to emphasize, everything i'm telling you is based on preliminary information. this is the best information we have at this moment and is by definition preliminary. but from what we know now, the only indication of danger came about 15 minutes earlier when a gas leak was reported to con edson. con ed dispatched a team immediately to respond. the explosion occurred before that team could arrive. as soon as the explosion was called in, fdny responded literally within two manipulations minutes of the call for help. fdny is now, again, in the process of put souting out the . con ed is in the process of shutting down all gas mains