Smoke billowed over Manhattan after a fire broke out at a luxury apartment building in New York on Thursday. The fire started around 11:30 a.m.
ET in the Hudson Yards high-rise, the New York Fire Department said in a statement to USA TODAY. The FDNY said the fire was controlled by 12:11 p.m.
The building where the fire took place is known as The Set, local media reported, an apartment offering hotel-like living quarters in the heart of Manhattan. W42ST reported that residents and kitchen staff at the Greywind restaurant, located at The Set, evacuated the building. Residents that spoke to the outlet said they did not hear alarms as the smoke passed their windows.
"I was on the 25th floor on a Zoom call, and I started seeing smoke through the window. I showed the person I was calling and asked, ‘this looks like a fire right?’” Elizabeth Schmidt, a resident of The Set for the past two months, told W42ST. “It was really a huge cloud at this point.
And no alarms went off. I heard nothing." The department said the cause of the fire was under investigation by fire marshals.
This is a developing story that may be updated.
