Footage from the scene shows Barry West, 57 walking down a sidewalk in St. Albans to pay a phone bill on Thursday when a fireball erupted from the grates below. A sidewalk explosion in St Albans, Queens. pic.twitter.com/C1tnFBNHdJ“I feel lousy, lousy,” he told the New York Daily News from the hospital, where he’s been in treatment for second-degree burns. I lost some skin all over.”Google Maps The scene of the explosion, captured by Google Street View cameras in November 2020. “When it exploded, I felt the heat on my face,” the unnamed worker told the newspaper, which also reported that a similar explosion the day before damaged a pizza place.

Source: Huffington Post July 28, 2021 04:52 UTC