Geologist Janet McCoy, in New York City for a meeting with
NASA o~cials, was strolling in Central Park when she wandered
near the blast site for a new subway spur. There she found a small
piece of "Genesis rock"-a sure sign of impending volcanic activity.
That s when she began to get scared
Hank Lawson, inspector for the Consolidated Edison power
company, had gone out to the subway excavation to investigate
reports of steam lines broken by the recent blasting. According,io~
his information there were no steam lines anywhere nearlt~e site
Tom Chastain, photographer for the Daily News, was~ec0rding
Lawson s visit when the "steam lines" erupted again-inca violent
explosion that killed Lawson instantly and made Chastain s story
front-page news
Ben Keller, demolitions chief at the site, thought he knew what
was causing the steam-small pockets of water in the rock that had
been heated by a previous blast. He decided he could cool them
down with a few fire hoses directed into the fissure
Janet McCoy, and the team of scientists she had gathered, could
have told Keller that he was about to make the worst mistake of
his life. For if the fissure really were volcanic, then new pressure
from above would very likely cause the fault to expand
The thousands of people who died in the next few minutes never
knew what hit them. Now the city waited for a second, even more
terrifying eruption-for the waves of glowing red lava that would
signal the beginning of the end
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