Daniel Meyers monitoring scanners for the Breaking News Network, a subscription-based service used mainly by news outlets.
A giant crane topples on the East Side of Manhattan and seven people are killed. A steam pipe explodes near Grand Central Terminal, leaving one passer-by dead, injuring dozens of others and forcing a number of businesses to close. A fire rips through a home in the Bronx, killing 10 members of two immigrant families from West Africa.
Most people got news of these major New York stories from television, radio, the newspaper or, more and more, the Web.
But some of the first hints that something big was happening came from a series of transmissions from outside the five boroughs. Those messages came from a strip mall in New Jersey and were sent to pagers and computers in newsrooms in New York City and beyond.
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