A smoky and FDNY-lined Van Brunt Street sent neighbors pouring out onto the pavement after a manhole fire resulted in 35 people without power in Red Hook.<\/p>\n
The FDNY said that it received a call of the manhole fire on Van Brunt Street between Sackett Street and Union Avenue just before 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
Con Edison and the FDNY performed a safety check of all units and surrounding buildings.<\/p>\n
According to some neighbors, the FDNY took nearly 30 minutes to battle the blaze inside the manhole, throwing water down it repeatedly, before engulfing the flame.<\/p>\n
“There was a lot of smoke, and the firemen tried to put it out,” says Gianmarco, a local business owner. “There is a little but of power but not much – you cannot use the air conditioner.”<\/p>\n
With temperatures soaring up to 100 degrees on Tuesday, other business owners brought in a backup generator, hoping to keep their produce fresh and from overheating.<\/p>\n
“It’s very bad, we have no power we have a lot of meat and stuff so we don’t know what to do,” said Ali, owner of MCH Halah Meat Packing.<\/p>\n
The FDNY tells News 12 that Con Edison is still working to restore full power back to the neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A smoky and FDNY-lined Van Brunt Street sent neighbors pouring out onto the pavement after a manhole fire…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,12638,12640,12639,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-11909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-con-edison","10":"tag-fire-danger","11":"tag-fire-official","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114740787162794638","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}