 "Photo: Seth Wenig")
NEW YORK - Construction workers climb around a section of collapsed crane that protrudes from a crushed building on 50th Street near Second Avenue in New York on Sunday. Crews with search dogs and heat-sensing cameras sought survivors or more victims in piles of rubble.
A crane mounted to the side of a skyscraper under construction toppled Saturday, smashing into a block of apartment buildings, killing at least two people and setting off a scramble for survivors in the rubble.
The collapsing crane demolished parts of several buildings on Manhattan's East Side, appeared to have pulverized one small, brick apartment building, and sent up a huge dust cloud over the neighborhood.
Fire Department officials said at least two people were dead and several others were taken to hospitals. An intensive, but delicate rescue operation was under way to free anyone still trapped in the rubble.
Firefighters searched piles of rubble, several stories high, looking for victims, according to television reports.
John PlaGreco, who owns Fu Bar in the crushed building, said he feared one of his employees was dead in the rubble.
"Our bar is done," he said. "The crane crashed the whole building. If I wasn't watching a Yankees game, I would've come to work early and gotten killed."
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