Transformer Fire in The Village in New York

An underground transformer fire closed a Greenwich Village intersection this morning.
Sept. 6, 2005
WABC News - New York
Eyewitness News has learned, the fire broke out under a crane at Sixth Avenue and 13th Street just after 7:30 a.m. The intersection was closed as authorities attempted to put out the blaze.
Eyewitness News has learned, the fire broke out under a crane at Sixth Avenue and 13th Street just after 7:30 a.m. The intersection was closed as authorities attempted to put out the blaze.

(West Village-WABC, September 6, 2005) - An underground transformer fire closed a Greenwich Village intersection this morning.

Eyewitness News has learned the fire broke out under a crane at Sixth Avenue and 13th Street just after 7:30 a.m. The intersection was closed as authorities attempted to put out the blaze.

Smoke was reported in the 14th Street subway station, but it was not closed. Two dozen patients from a nearby dialysis center were briefly evacuated.

(Copyright 2005 WABC-TV)

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