Watch: Black smoke swirls over Manhattan after hospital catches fire
Plumes of black smoke filled the skies above New York University’s Langone Medical Center Wednesday after a fire broke out on the fifth floor of the complex, fire officials said.
The fire broke out in an area under construction, WPXI reported. Officials told the news station around 12:30 p.m. that the hospital was not being evacuated and the flames did not appear to be a threat to patients.
Witnesses posted videos and images of the fire, and the thick black smoke it produced, on social media.
