A fire destroyed a large apartment complex under construction Tuesday.
The blaze was thick, black smoke but it was “under control” by mid-afternoon, two-and-a-half hours after it started.
All construction workers who had been in the high-rise building were accounted for, and no injuries have been reported.
Video posted to YouTube (below) show one construction worker on a fourth-floor balcony of the structure, with heavy flames showing inside the building. As he was waiting for a ladder truck to come to his aid, the worker dropped down, swinging onto a balcony below.
He was eventually rescued by the ladder, just as the top-story wall falls behind him in flames.
The video, uploaded by user Karen Jones, claims to have been shot from a building on the AIG campus near the scene of the fire.
