NYC Manhole Fires Have Doubled in the Last Two Years
This article was originally published on by THE CITY.
Andrew Fine assumed lightning struck when he heard an explosion outside his Manhattan apartment on a recent Friday night.
But after one of his kids told him to look out their window, seeing “a car completely engulfed in flames,” he heard two more loud booms — and soon discovered that manholes were erupting beneath two cars parked on the block.