Firefighters are still working an active scene in Williamsburg after manhole fires sent dangerous carbon monoxide levels into a residential building, forcing dozens of people out of their homes early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
\tCrews were called to 101 Humboldt St. just after 3:20 a.m. after reports of carbon monoxide inside the seven-story building.<\/p>\n
\tOnce firefighters arrived, they detected elevated levels and learned that two manholes on the street were on fire. That\u2019s when evacuations began.<\/p>\n
\tResidents were moved out floor by floor as firefighters worked to clear the building. Officials say the entire building was eventually evacuated.<\/p>\n
\tTwo civilians were taken to Woodhull Hospital to be checked out<\/p>\n
\tFDNY buses were brought in to give displaced residents a warm place to wait while crews continued working.<\/p>\n
\tOne tenant said the situation escalated quickly.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThey knock on the door and told everyone there\u2019s smelling gas and the next thing you know they told everybody to come out. By the time we got out the building the thing blew up. I thought the building was on fire. I was scared so I grabbed my little niece and went out here,\u201d said James Keney, who has lived in the building for three years.<\/p>\n
Fire operations remain ongoing.<\/p>\n
\tCon Edison crews and supervisors are on site, working alongside National Grid to make repairs as quickly and safely as possible. Utility crews are still trying to determine what caused the manhole fires.<\/p>\n
\tResidents are waiting for the all-clear to return home.<\/p>\n
\tNews 12 will continue to follow this developing story and provide updates as soon as new information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters are still working an active scene in Williamsburg after manhole fires sent dangerous carbon monoxide levels into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,32737,35905,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-137636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-carbon-monoxide","12":"tag-manhole","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}