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    Transformer Fire in The Village in New York

    Sept. 6, 2005
    An underground transformer fire closed a Greenwich Village intersection this morning.
    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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