Massive explosion levels 2 buildings in NYC

"Last night when we came out of church, at the corner outside in the street there was a smell of gas," she said. "It would come and go, so I thought it was from the corner store there so I went to the owners and told them and they said they would look into it and then we went home."

my comment: It means, the people smelled the odor of gas days ago...

zitat2 from cbs news:

The exact cause of the blast is still unclear, but Con Edison said crews were responding to the area on a report of a gas odor just prior to the explosion.

my comment: Control management should be called before due to odor. I'm sure that the management was called before. Please see the calling Liste of Management. I do not understand why the street has not been evacuated early, after odor was communicated to management.

This must be investigated.

yours sincerely,

Oezden Aynali(=Germany)