The New York City Fire Department battled a 5-alarm fire, de Blasio said. He confirmed that the explosion was caused by a gas leak.
"The way the building imploded after the explosion, it must have happened on the bottom floor," Carmen Vargas-Rosa, an employee at the Spanish Christian Church located in one of the buildings that collapsed, said to the Huffington Post. "The only thing I can see doing that much damage is a gas explosion."
She said that she smelled gas in the area of the buildings last night. In a statement to the New York Daily News, Con Edison confirmed that neighbors called in to complain about the smell of gas just 18 minutes before the explosion.
Vargas-Rosa said she hadn't heard from many of the tenants who lived in the apartments above the church. She said at least 14 tenants and their children lived in the buildings.
"We could feel the boom," neighbor Gus Cortez, 36, told HuffPost. "We ran outside and we could see that the buildings had fallen. There was a lot of fire. People were scared."
Metro-North trains have been suspended in and out of Grand Central Terminal due to debris from the explosion blocking the tracks.
More information on this will surely come later on today guys once an investigation is done, so stay tuned to your local TV news stations. To be honest this is as much of a shock to the rest of the country as it is to Harlem residents.
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