NYC explosion in transformer damages building, no injuries
An explosion in a transformer on a sidewalk on 6th avenue and 20th street in New York City, damaged the front door of a Radio Shack store and damaged an entire seven-story building on Thursday.
No injuries were reported and all the people in the building were evacuated. The cause of the explosion is still unknown.
A spokesman from Consolidated Edison, Christopher Olert, said the transformer was in a vault below the front of the building, NBC New York reports.
The windows of the building were broken as a result of the fire.
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