Upper West Side residents – fearing they could be electrocuted like a Lower East Side woman was on Friday night – yesterday blasted Con Ed for not fixing a smoking electrical wire in a street vent.
A series of sparks and flashes began spitting from under the metal grate on West End Avenue and 82nd Street at around 10 a.m. Thursday, and residents immediately dialed Con Ed.
“They never came,” said Steve Bohan, 43, who works in a nearby building.
Con Ed spokesman Chris Olert insisted workers checked the wire and determined it wasn’t a danger. He said Con Ed would fix it at the “first opportunity.”
Smoke billow from the site yesterday, and large white and orange sparks shot through the grating.
“I’m disappointed [at Con Ed], considering someone died the other night,” said Monte Funnye, 42, a block resident.
On Friday, Jodie Lane, 30, was electrocuted after she and her dogs came into contact with a charged metal utility plate on East 11th Street.