These sort of events are caused by melting snow mixing with road salt and seeping into the underground electric equipment.

Two young children and a woman suffered burns after multiple manhole covers exploded in lower Manhattan Thursday afternoon, ...

Two kids and an adult were injured when a manhole exploded in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood on Thursday afternoon, according to police and fire officials. The explosion happened just before 4 p.m.

The NYPD and FDNY reported that three manhole covers were blown open this afternoon. The victims have minor injuries.

Three people, including two children, are recovering after a manhole explosion shook a busy Tribeca intersection Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The incident happened ...

MIDTOWN (WABC) -- Monday night work crews returned to the spot where a man used to pulling shots of espresso wound up pulling two people from a wrecked taxi. In Manhattan, the taxi drove over a ...

Osman Bah was driving his taxi through Midtown when an underground explosion shot four heavy manhole covers into the air. The blast near Lexington Avenue and 44th Street sent one of the metal covers ...

BUSHWICK, Brooklyn (WABC) -- A manhole explosion was captured on video on Thursday afternoon in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The explosion happened at 5:21 p.m. on Central Avenue between Myrtle Avenue and ...

A manhole exploded underneath an occupied New York City MTA bus, sending the nearly 300-pound iron plate cover up through the floor of the bus and hitting a passenger sitting on the bus Tuesday. The ...

NEW YORK -- Monday night work crews returned to the spot where a man used to pulling shots of espresso wound up pulling two people from a wrecked taxi. In Manhattan, the taxi drove over a manhole at ...

Residents in a quiet Virginia neighborhood were jolted from their sleep early Sunday after what sounded like an explosion ripped through the area—sending manhole covers flying and prompting an ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Firefighters were on the scene after an underground explosion caused a manhole cover to fly into the air in the Old City section of Philadelphia. It happened at 9:20 a.m.