The collapse was captured in a dramatic video taken by an onlooker a few blocks away. The footage showed the crane twist and sway before falling as pedestrians are seen running for cover. Here's more.
A construction crane working on a hi-rise building in midtown Manhattan caught fire and collapsed on Wednesday, striking an adjacent building as it came crashing down on the street below.
“Just watched a crane fall and pummel a building on the other side of the block!” Jimmy Farring wrote in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.Six people, including two firefighters, received minor injuries.Pfeifer said more than 200 firefighters and emergency personnel responded to the scene of the five-alarm fire, which began at approximately 7:30 a.m. at the construction site on 10th Avenue and 41st street near Times Square.
Debris from a crane collapse sit in the road as emergency personnel gather at the scene in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday.
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