Officials in New York praised luck after a tower crane’s engine compartment burst into flames, causing its boom and 16 tons of concrete it was carrying to plunge onto the street in Manhattan last week.
Twelve people, including three firefighters, received non-life-threatening injuries, but nobody died, CNN reports.
“This could have been a lot worse,” said Joseph Pfeifer, first deputy commissioner of the New York City Fire Department in a media briefing later that morning.
The fire department said the crane operator noticed the fire and tried to put it out before safely leaving the cabin.
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