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A hearth broke out Monday at a historic Broadway theater in New York Metropolis that hosts the hit play “The Guide of Mormon,” officers stated.
Dozens of items with the New York Fireplace Division (FDNY) responded to the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on forty ninth Road round 10 a.m. to extinguish the three-alarm blaze, FDNY Assistant Chief David Simms stated throughout a information briefing.
“This was a deep-seated fireplace involving a number of electrical tools,” he stated. “It was very troublesome to get to.”
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Michael James Scott stands beneath the theatre marquee on the Broadway opening night time Gypsy Gown ceremony for “The Guide of Mormon” on the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in New York Metropolis. A hearth broken components of the constructing Monday, officers stated. (Walter McBride/Corbis through Getty Photographs)
Greater than 200 first responders arrived on the scene. The fire started within the electrical room between the fourth and fifth flooring, he stated. After the hearth was knocked down, extra flames had been found between the fifth ground and the roof.
“There’s been substantial harm on the fourth ground and {the electrical} room, which comprises lighting tools and the hanging chandeliers,” stated Simms.
One firefighter sustained minor accidents and was taken to a hospital; all theater personnel had been accounted for, Simms stated. The constructing shall be closed for repairs pending an investigation by the town’s Division of Buildings.
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A hearth broke out Monday on the Eugene O’Neill Theatre in New York, the constructing that hosts the hit play “The Guide of Mormon.” (WNYW)
The theater has hosted “The Guide of Mormon” since 2011, the New York Post reported. It was not clear how the hearth will impression future performances.
Fox Information Digital has reached out to a consultant for the play and theatre proprietor Ambassador Theatre Group.
A New York Metropolis firefighter seen climbing a ladder to battle a fireplace on the Eugene O’Neill Theatre. (WNYW)
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Vacationers staying at a resort subsequent to the theater advised local media that they had been compelled to depart whereas firefighters battled the flames.
“I threw on some garments and ran down the steps,” Krissy Giffin advised PIX 11.
