A Brooklyn lady who was electrocuted by a downed energy line three years in the past had an eerily comparable encounter Thursday evening when a dwell wire from a transformer explosion left her trapped inside her residence.
Lisa Grieco, 56 — who narrowly escaped dying along with her daughter in 2017 when energy strains brought about {an electrical} hearth at their Dyker Heights home — was in her front room when at about 9:45 p.m. she heard one other explosion.
“I felt like I used to be going to die,” Grieco, who once more, was along with her daughter on the time, advised The Put up of the harrowing ordeal. “We have been in the lounge and we simply heard an explosion. Increase! I believed, ‘god, not once more!’”
Grieco has sued Con Edison from the 2017 incident that additionally electrocuted her then 18-year-old daughter, Lena Grieco. Although injured, the 2 have been in a position to escape the blaze.
Lena, now 21, stated Thursday evening was like “déjà vu.”
“My mother was crying,” the daughter stated. “That is the second time! We have been screaming. We’re terrified, we’ve like PTSD from the final time,” she stated.
The household stated Con Edison and the FDNY responded to {the electrical} explosion. However the hearth division advised them “to not go away the home” oin Thursday evening due to the dwell wire.
Con Edison reported two outages, one in entrance of the house and the opposite outdoors their neighbors.