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A gas explosion at a condo unit in the Bronx has left nine people injured, six of whom are children, fire officials said. NBC New York s Checkey Beckford reports.
The report of an explosion in the Bronx came in just before 3:30 p.m., the Fire Department of New York said. Two people in serious condition were taken to the hospital, as were six other people with minor injuries, including a firefighter. One person refused medical attention at the scene.
The condominiums where the blast occurred are located near the corner of Poplar Street and Paulding Avenue in Parkchester.
A mother who lives in the building and her two young children were stuck on the second floor after the explosion blew doors, glass and even the window guard off their home. The impact was so powerful that it sent the front door of one of the units flying into power lines across the street.
‘Like an Earthquake’: Gas Explosion Rips Through a Bronx House
Ten people suffered minor injuries in the blast, which knocked a door off its hinges and across the street and blew windows out of their frames.
Investigators at the scene of an explosion in the Bronx, which may have been caused by a gas plumbing system.Credit.Dakota Santiago for The New York Times
Feb. 18, 2021
Ten people were hurt, none of them seriously, when a gas explosion ripped through a three-story house in the Bronx on Thursday, officials said.
The explosion’s force blew one of the house’s doors off its hinges and across the street, where it hung from telephone wires in the frigid air as night fell and investigators scoured the building and the area around it.