Video: New Yorker delivers coffee, pastries to emergency personnel at Chelsea bombing site

Police arrive on the scene of an explosion in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, in New York, Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016. A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that an explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood appears to have come from a... (Copyright by WSLS - All rights reserved)

Matt Jaworowski, Media General National Desk – https://www.facebook.com/knightnews/videos/10157392671575527/

(MEDIA GENERAL) – Investigators and emergency personnel are working around the clock as they work to find the people behind a powerful explosion in Manhattan that injured 29 people.

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One New Yorker hopes to make their days at least a little easier.

A team of journalists from KnightNews.com, an independent news source that covers the University of Central Florida, flew up to New York to cover the explosion and investigation first-hand. They happened upon a chance encounter with a man named Germaine delivering coffee and pastries to a pair of New York firefighters.

In the video, Germaine, who works at a nearby Starbucks, explains that he is delivering some replenishments and shakes hands and thanks two firefighters before walking away.

On Monday morning, the New York Police Department have named 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, of Elizabeth, New Jersey, as a suspect in the bombing. He was taken into custody later Monday morning following a shootout with authorities in New Jersey.

The explosion occurred in front of 131 West 23rd Street, believed to be a homemade bomb that was placed underneath a dumpster. A second device was found several blocks away and handled by the NYPD bomb squad.

Authorities have not yet determined if the explosion is considered an act of terrorism.