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Electrical Fire Forced Employees Out of Broadway High-Rise
Dozens of office workers scurried out of the tower at 225 Broadway around 10 a.m. after an electrical conduit on the third floor shorted out, a spokesman for the city’s Fire Department said. The cause of the short is still under department investigation. Though the department said it had the situation in hand about an hour after firefighters arrived, the sidewalk in front of the tower was closed for almost two hours. Employees who fled the building, which is home to mostly law offices, were not allowed back in until shortly before noon. Department officials said the problem was contained to the third floor, but at least one man, who asked not to be identified, working on the 15th floor said he could smell smoke in his office. “There was a lot of the smoke in the building,” the employee said. “They think it was electrical, but [firefighters] haven’t told us where it was.” Traffic near the intersections of Broadway, Park Row, Barclay and Vesey Streets slowed to a crawl as the department sent as many as 26 trucks and emergency vehicles to the 44-story tower, typical protocol for high-rise alarms, a department spokesman said. No one was seriously hurt, though one man was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital for an undisclosed “minor injury,” fire officials said.
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