People on twitter are saying JJ's is completely obliterated
http://m.kmbc.com/news/Watch-Live-on...z/-/index.html
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People on twitter are saying JJ's is completely obliterated
http://m.kmbc.com/news/Watch-Live-on...z/-/index.html
Drone strike....or Ryder truck bomb.
http://www.kctv5.com/story/21254467/large-fire
Live video
Gas line explosion
JJ's on the Plaza. Meh. It was okay.
Looks like nothing much left.
Just talked to a friend of mine that works down there and she says the smell of gas is still choking them.
Reading on twitter that the place may have been evacuated prior to the explosion. Better hope that's true.
They're saying there were people running out of it. Not sure when this happened but they have a popular happy hour.Originally Posted by mgsooner
I can't understand why they'd still be having a gas fire. Shouldn't someone had turned it off by now? There's a backhoe out front so they're speculating as to whether that may have had something to do with it.
Car crashed into a gas main. Terrorism is not believed to be a factor.
People on scene immediately saying the only fire was what appears to be the gas fed flame that is still burning.
Tell them to light a match.
KCPD was the one saying that it was the car crash. News reporters are saying that from a couple blocks away you can still hear the gas hissing. Not a gas guy but they are saying that that indicates something else. Apparently there's still a danger for another explosion. There's a couple other places down there i wouldn't mind seeing burn down.
Sounds as if a lot of people may not be able to get back in their places tonight. Might have to cruise on down there and put on my Good Samaritan hat...
The fire marshal is going door to door and evacuating every restaurant.
Brother of JJ's owner tells @KCTV5 4 employees critically injured. 1 employee unaccounted for. Wall in kitchen collapsed after explosion....
place is ****ing gone
Mayor is on TV doing the only thing he seems to be able to do - yapping on camera.
News just reported that there are still 3 unaccounted for.
All the local news coverage ****ed up my DVR.
I am going with drone, the gas line thing is a cover up
Some incredible photos here. The place is literally gone. It looks exactly like a bomb detonated.
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/02/20...re-damage.html
Also, there is now one person confirmed dead:
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/02/20...k=omni_popular
Place just needs a new coat of paint and she'll be as good as new..
Queue the lawsuits...
‘I was just 15 minutes from dead,’ witness says
By STEVE KRASKE, ERIC ADLER and JUDY THOMAS
The Kansas City Star
Joe Whisler detected the odor even before he got to JJ’s Tuesday afternoon.
“I could smell gas from my car when I got to 48th and Belleview,” said Whisler of Westwood, who was meeting friends for a drink after work.
“It was overpowering.”
As he walked to the restaurant, Whisler said, he noticed a pipe in the ground at the alley on the east side of JJ’s that appeared to be leaking gas.
“I could hear a hiss of gas and smell it wafting up,” he said.
He met his friends inside and had a gl**** of wine. About 5:20 p.m., Whisler said, Kansas City firefighters entered the restaurant and told the owners to turn off their ovens and grills and open the doors to the outside. They did as they were told, Whisler said, with employees “covering their faces because of the odor.”
“I said to the lead fire guy, ‘Shouldn’t we evacuate here?’ ” Whisler said. “They told me no, that they had called the gas company. I saw three Missouri Gas Energy workers walking around outside.”
But the odor proved too strong for Whisler, and he left JJ’s about 5:30 p.m.
“The smell inside was so bad I couldn’t stand it,” he said. “It was unbearable.”
Whisler noticed the same pipe leaking gas in the alley when he left the restaurant. He said about 15 customers were in the bar and some were in the dining room when he left.
Whisler’s friend Matt Nichols, who is JJ’s general manager, was one of those still inside. Whisler worried Tuesday night about Nichols and other friends who remained in the restaurant.
“Most of the staff are my friends,” he said.
Whisler was still trying Tuesday night to get a grip on what had happened.
“I’m OK, but I was just 15 minutes from dead,” he said.
****la Brockman sensed something was wrong as she stood in an underground parking garage a few minutes before 5 p.m. The smell of gas was overwhelming.
“It was so apparent,” said Brockman, executive director of the Menorah Legacy Foundation, whose building at 4739 Belleview Ave. abuts JJ’s from the north. “So bad. You have no idea. It is that smell, you know, times 10. That smell on steroids. I knew I was going to p**** out.”
Brockman said she went back into her building, told her co-worker to evacuate and alerted Steve Rothstein, who owns the building as well as the apartment complex at 4732 and 4734 Belleview directly west and across the street from JJ’s.
As Brockman left the building, she saw workers who had been drilling in the street near the alley just steps from of JJ’s entrance.
“I said, ‘You hit a gas line, didn’t you?’” she recalled. “They said, ‘Yeah, we did.’ “I knew something bad was going to happen.”
Rothstein said that after Brockman alerted him, he also went to the parking garage, smelled gas and spoke to a worker.
“He said, ‘We had a break in the gas line,’ ” Rothstein said. “I asked, ‘Have you capped it?’ He said no. I said, ‘Are we safe?’ He said, ‘Yes, we’re safe.’ ”
Rothstein said he returned to his third-floor office. Shortly after that he heard and felt a tremendous explosion.
“I looked outside,” Rothstein said. “The whole roof of JJ’s had caved in.”
And the fire came soon after.
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/02/19...k=omni_popular
That was one hell of an explosion.
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