Last Updated: 6:25 PM, September 20, 2011
Posted: 10:19 AM, September 20, 2011
Eighteen people were injured this morning when part of a building and the attached scaffolding collapsed onto a city bus in Harlem, authorities said
The two-story building's facade, along with the scaffolding, collapsed at 9:30 a.m. on W. 125th Street near Frederick Douglass Boulevard, sending bricks, rocks and debris crashing down, witnesses said.
People became trapping underneath the rubble and had to be rescued by firefighters.
“It just fell and it fell so quickly,” said a witness who was standing across the street. “You just heard the boom and saw mostly smoke.”
Laura Cavanaugh
Scaffolding collapsed on a bus this morning in Harlem.
TOMAS GASTON
Rescue crews place an injured person on a stretcher today after scaffolding crushed the back half of a city bus.
There were about 30 people on the Bx15 at the time of the accident, police
said.
The 18 injured people were taken to St. Lukes, Cornell and Harlem hospitals with minor injuries, said a FDNY spokesman.
Police said eight people who were injured were passengers on the bus.
Two police officers were among the injured after they were hurt digging through the rubble, police said.
The city Department of Buildings is investigating the accident.
Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/harlem_least_injured_after_scaffold_JtsoNU7pNeb20ytFyyRBsK#ixzz1YZ5cjxO5
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