Several manhole explosions occurred this morning near Joralemon Street and Columbia Place in Brooklyn Heights. "We had fire out of two transformer volts. We had fire out of a sewer grate on the corner. And we had a couple blown sewer covers,” Battalion Chief Bill Falkenmayer told WCBS 880. It is the same area where manhole explosions occurred in January of this year, due to a private contractor hitting an electrical line. No injuries have been reported in today's incident; during the previous explosion on Joralemon Street, at least one idealistic intern was the toy of cruel fate, which kicked him to the curb and broke his glasses in a frenzied sacrifice to the Gods of journalism.
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