Small Craft Crashes Into East 72nd Building

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Breaking: Helicopter Fixed Wing Aircraft Crashes Into East 72nd Building
… it appears that the small craft crashed into the 50 story condo at 524 East 72nd Street at York Avenue.
…CNN reporting that NORAD is scrambling fighter coverage over major cities as a precaution.
…listening to the alarm calls online (sorry can’t get a link), and FDNY has increased this fire to a Four Alarm fire, which includes the following equipment:

  • 16 engines
  • 9 ladders
  • 5 battalion chiefs
  • 1 rescue
  • 1 squad
  • 1 deputy chief
  • 1 RAC unit
  • 1 satellite
  • safety battalion
  • SOC battalion
  • 1 tactical support unit
  • field comm

…reports are coming in that the fire has been extinguished, Gawker has photos.

My, we think highly of ourselves…

This post appeared in a previous blog and is here for posterity’s sake.

Gmail has a built-in RSS reader, which sometimes will list advertisements. After viewing an email regarding the upcoming UN-Habitat Conference on
Sustainable Urban Design
(pdf), I noticed the RSS reader had the following advertisement:
My, we think highly of ourselves...
Just for good measure (and for google), the ad says: Bofill Architects – The most prestigious architectural studio in the world.
My, we think highly of ourselves – and pay google to tell it to the world.