poughkeepsie and yonkers. they re going 0 have it try to get to yankee stadium to get on the train. these trains would go all the way down, do their turnaround and go the other way. now they re not going to be able to get across that bridge. they re going to have to stop at probably either yankee stadium or melrose. the other one, probably mt. vernon and if you went from new haven to bridgeport, took any one took that train in from those areas you are stuck downtown right now. you re going to have to get a cab, a car, something. something to get you across the river to get you to a station to the east of there, unless there s going to set up a bus service. i ve been on the website looking. i don t have anything yet new how they re going to get the commuters over that bridge to get to the other stations. clearly, you can get from greenwich to new haven. that train would still be open. that line would still be okay. it s that bottleneck to get you from grand central to
that fire s not spreading and they re containing it and no injuries. can you explain, because we don t have a good relationship shot of this area and how it relates structurally to the bridge itself. caller: well, it s certainly not the bridge. right. caller: it s a section adjoining the structure that holds the bridge up. uh-huh. caller: from what we heard from metro north, the wood pilings in the river, meant to keep boats away from the bridge s support structure that caught on fire. that appears to be what i m seeing. the bridge appears to be intact. it s not on fire, and appears to be being contained. okay. and no indication at least from anyone you ve spoken with as to what might have caused all this? as we look at the you know, at least moments, at the height of the fire when it was burning intensely and we have thick, black smoke billowing out of the area. any indication what might have
a handle on the flames portion of this, but there is clearly a lot of work to be done here. and we re talking about a fire over the harlem river pilings there on fire. and that s what it is. chad, right? what we re talking about? we re talking about pilings here? yeah. kind of the support structure there being protected by these wooden pilings, just in case some barge gets out of control. you lose the pilot, whatever it might be, you don t want the barges bumping into the real pilings of the bridge. so they make these surroundings out of wood that are a little bit flexible, but also very go to google. i ll show where you it is and can you see the city of manhattan, hoboken, fly you to the north. this line really goes up towards connecticut and up towards westchester. there s the bridge. take you right in. there s the wooden structure, right there, that s on fire. very good. then below that, you can t see the versicleness of this bridge. when you see it from the helicopter you s
i can see the versicle nature of the piling. had that wood which is treated and treated and treated with like a train track, with the creosote, very flammable. when it catches on fire it s like trying to put a tire fire out. right. right, right. i believe we ve got sam, are you on the line with us? caller: i am, yes. sam, what s your last name? caller: sam bureau. a spokesman. pilings are on fire? caller: that is correct. there is a fire under the bridge. 138th street bridge. it s on the manhattan side, and as you indicated, of course, because of that there is no service into or out of grand central. this bridge carries all four tracks. all four metro tracks out of manhattan. so at this point, there s no service going in or out of grand central, and we ask our customers just to look for the
this country anymore. what they did, scientists took a gene from the ocean pout. they have goethe hormone all year long. scientists said, isn t that cool? take the all year long growth hormone gene out of this fish, put it in this fish. this fish now grows a whole lot faster. about twice as fast. and so they say that s good for business, and they say the fish looks and tastes the same. okay. so i m wondering if the scientists have should we get to the beeper now? all right. elizabeth, let me yeah. let me get to the beeper that we have. getting the latest information on i apologize elizabeth. we ll try to circle back. let s get the latest information that we can on this fire. under a bridge, the harlem river. on the phone with us, a former new york fire commissioner. tom, thanks for your time. caller: welcome. have you seen some of these pictures? caller: yes. what s going on? what s your assessment?