At the gas station. Greg cergol is live at the scene tonight. Reporter pat and rob, the owner here got a phone call before 3 00 this morning saying his gas station was on fire. And what makes all of this all the more worse is that it appears it was no accident. Its pretty bad. You can see that. Gas station owner dave hassan had little to celebrate this new years day. Part of his station was damaged in a predawn fire that erupted after a car slammed into a gas pump. The whole pump is burned, the building is damaged. Thank god nobody was right by the window and my cashier was, you know, he was inside and hes save. But while the damage here is unmistakable, what happened is less clear. My other guy was telling me i think there was two or three day gooi guys, they were in an argument and started fighting. Crash and fire. But no one involved stuck around long enough to talk to police. We didnt find any victims at the scene. It was just a vehicle engulfed at the time when we arrived. Suffolk
Ened. Well oem is telling me hopefully monday morning. Its caused me headache for drghivers and some that live here here. For some they cant go home until then. People rolled suitcases up 64 street away from their home. Away from what is now a nstruction zone. We saw a couple of bricks fall yesterday, two or three. But that got them thinking reporter three days of hundreds of icks came raining down on t this eastside street, building officials discoffered that more bricks were in danger of falling. Its where this man is the super. Everybody is out. 16 people. We saw the windows being boarded up and we saw a couple of people packing up to leave. Reporter the red cross is here to help those who had nowhere to go. So what work needs to be done . Officials describe a big job and not an easy one. Part that we think may have to collapse and then theyll do a hand demo of all of those bricks. Sohats a timeconsuming labor intensive issue that we have to al with. Reporter in the meantime, street