As it fell the boom hit and damaged a building across the street. It was carrying a full concrete bucket, reported to have weighed 16 US tons, which also landed in the road below. “We give a lot of credit to the crane operator but the fire overwhelmed that operator and he had to exit the crane,” said Joseph Pfeifer, New York Fire Department first deputy commissioner.Īs fire crews then arrived on the scene the Favelle Favco crane’s boom, thought to be around 50 metres long, suddenly dropped from its luffed position and then detached from the crane, falling into the street 45 storeys below. The crane operator attempted to extinguish the fire. An hydraulic oil leak close to the hot diesel engine has been suggested as a possible cause of the fire but nothing has been confirmed. Local news reports said the fire started in the crane’s engine compartment, on the machinery deck behind the operator’s cabin. Minor injuries were reported, to around a dozen people.Īround 07.30 on 26 July a fire was reported on a large diesel hydraulic luffing jib tower crane working on the construction of a 47 storey mixed use tower, 550 10th Avenue, at the junction with West 41st Street, in the Hell’s Kitchen area of Manhattan, near the Lincoln Tunnel. Multiple reports have come in of a tower crane in New York City, USA, catching fire and dropping its boom into the street below.
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