UPDATED with video – December 14, 2015 : It is still unclear how the fire started.
The U.S. Postal Service released a statement that read in part:
“No mail was in the vehicles, in the facility or damaged due to the fire. This is a four-story parking facility for postal assigned vehicles which, at full capacity, houses approximately 350 vehicles. Access to the facility and the remaining postal vehicles vehicles has been restored. Local postal officials are making adjustments to vehicle assignments today and there will be no impact to customer deliveries or collections. An investigation into the source of the fire continues. ”
NEW YORK — Fire officials say six U.S. Postal Service trucks were damaged in a fire in a garage of a Manhattan postal facility.
The blaze broke out around 10:30 p.m. Saturday at a postal facility on 11th Avenue in the Chelsea neighborhood. Dozens of firefighters responded, and the blaze was declared under control around midnight.
The trucks were on the third floor of a parking garage. There are no reported injuries. There was no mail in the trucks at the time of fire.
Local postal officials are making adjustments to vehicle assignments today and there will be no impact to customer deliveries or collections, a U.S. Postal Service spokesperson said.
more from NY Daily News
No one was injured in the mysterious blaze, and the fire did not affect the adjacent postal facilities, according to fire officials.
Postal workers gathered around the site until after midnight to watch the fire get knocked down.
One mailman said he heard the sound of the charred trucks’ exploding tires.
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Really? Due 2 several downsizings,Morgan,NY (Manhattan )P&D.C.,handles piece of origining letter-sized from NYC’s five boroughs. That’s roughly 8.2 million people and growing. They also handle,all of the city’s return-to-sender and forwards mails.
I was a mail carrier. I am a retired mail carrier now. I am sorry for all mail carries that have to go threw that something scary. we put our lives on the line every day. a lot of people don’t realize the stuff we go through. so to all the carriers out there this Christmas have a safe holiday.