New York firefighters tackle World Trade Center blaze
The One World Trade Center is reflected inside a window as tourists peer through at the 9/11 Memorial Plaza in New York June 5, 2012.
Image by: EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERS
Image by: EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERS
A fire briefly broke out early Wednesday on the 88th floor of New York's World Trade Center skyscraper, built to replace the destroyed Twin Towers.
The fire at One World Trade Center began just as rush hour got underway, but was quickly tamed, a spokesman for the New York Fire Department told AFP.
"It's near under control," the spokesman said less an hour after the emergency started.
A total of 84 firefighters from 26 units were dispatched to the glimmering, glass-clad tower which rises to 104 floors. There were no injuries.
The tower, briefly dubbed Freedom Tower, but often referred to also as 1 WTC is the lynchpin of the reconstruction project in lower Manhattan where nearly 3,000 people died during the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Twin Towers.
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