Fire breaks out beneath iconic Tiffany’s building in NYC
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An underground transformer erupted beneath the iconic Tiffany’s building in Midtown Thursday morning – engulfing the outside of the structure in thick gray smoke.
The blaze, which stemmed from an electrical vault, broke out around 9:30 a.m. – causing plumes of heavy smoke to surround the newly refurbished building on Fifth Avenue near East 57th Street – located right next to Trump Tower, FDNY officials said.
“It was an underground transformer, either overheating or some type of electrical issue,” FDNY Battalion 8 Chief Richard Blasi told reporters in Midtown.
“It’s an outside transformer fire, which had nothing to do with the [Tiffany’s building]. It was isolated. All we had to do was stand by and make sure there was no extension until ConEd cut the power ...
