Manhattan Building Explodes
A three-story building at 32 East 62nd Street in Manhattan exploded this morning and is burning.
Hundreds of firefighters and rescue workers are on scene at what FDNY officials are calling this a “major incident.”
There are reports of multiple people trapped inside the building, but there are no confirmed injuries at the moment. FDNY workers are now climbing over the rubble of the collapsed building to try to get to those who are reportedly trapped underneath. The FDNY Collapse Response Unit has arrived on the scene and has joined the search.
No cause given as of yet.
Update: The AP:
The cause was not immediately known, though White House press secretary Tony Snow said there was no indication of terrorism.
Update 2: Allah says Foxnews reported it was a gas explosion.
July 10th, 2006 at 10:50 am
Building collapses in Manhattan
Allahpundit at Hot Air reports that a 4-story building in New York City’s Upper East Side collapsed after a gas explosion.
July 10th, 2006 at 11:11 am
Mayor Bloomberg showed up and started giving a platform speech without giving the residents enough warning to crack their windows and vents; the resulting overpressure from all the foul, hot air caused the walls to fail and the building to explode.
July 11th, 2006 at 1:14 am
To really turn your stomach, the AP is now reporting that this may have been the result of one asshole’s elaborate suicide attempt.
July 11th, 2006 at 6:57 am
Such horrible name-calling. Couldn’t you call the guy something a little less judgmental, like maybe “procto-American?”
July 11th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Gee, X, if all you can do is attack a position I’ve never taken, then I guess you’ve got nuthin’.
July 11th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
Oh yes, I almost forgot. Your beef is with me calling scum “scum” or morons “morons,” not with me calling “assholes” assholes. Silly me.
July 12th, 2006 at 12:47 am
Again, a position I’ve never taken. It’s settled then. You’ve got nuthin.
(For those not familiar with those threads, my actual beef, which Xrlq is apparently unwilling or unable to articulate in an intellectually honest fashion, is that he gripes about other people doing exactly the same thing he does even more often than they do. My policy on name-calling has been published for over two years.)
July 12th, 2006 at 9:05 am
Yup, I’m dishonest all right. So dishonest, in fact, that I managed to hack into your LeanLeft account and post an entry titled “On Xrlq’s Name-Calling Habit,” just to make it look as though you’d taken a position that you have never taken. Just to be extra devious, I left out any references to double-standards, real or imagined, and even backdated the entry all the way to last July, which was long before you discovered that even lamer “name-calling is name-calling is name-calling” argument you’re making now. It was almost the perfect crime. All I forgot to do was to link back to your own stated policy on name-calling, which would have made your … err, my … entry look even sillier than it did.
July 14th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Xrlq:
Wow, you were thorough. So thorough, in fact, that you deleted all the parts where I condemned the habit, all the parts where I said “name-calling is unconditionally wrong,” and where I said “Xrlq is a bad person because he calls people names.” Actually, you deleted any references to my taking any position on the matter whatsoever. That’s pretty damn thorough, in my book.
That post was an InstaTgirsch throwaway, where I merely linked a comment I thought was funny (at your expense). To read into that post the message that “all name-calling is bad” is even more absurd than to read “Iraq and al-Qaeda are working together” into the 2003 SOTU. (Oh, wait…)
In other words, with that link, you’ve just established two things: Jack, and Shit. And Jack left town.