Demolition crews prepared for Fay Street Warehouse implosion

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You can watch the demolition LIVE on Time Warner Cable News. Set your alarm clocks for 7 a.m.

UTICA, N.Y. -- At 6 a.m. Friday, about 2 pounds of explosives were brought into the Fay Street Warehouse and carefully wired into a center column of the structure.

"What we're trying to do is minimize the quantity of explosives necessary to remove the column," said Jim Redyke, the president of Dykon Explosive Demolition Corporation.

All safety precautions were taken as traffic on the North-South Arterial was brought to a halt and crews stood back because when the button was pushed at 7 a.m. sharp the blast shook everyone to their core.

"It's always louder in a test blast because it's echoing through the whole building. And it seems like when you do them all together it's not as noisy except that I'm a bad judge on the noise," Redyke said.

This was just a small taste of what the real implosion will look, sound and feel like. On Sunday, it won't just be one column being demolished, the whole building will be coming down. And with it being just feet from the Arterial, everything has to happen just so.

"You'll hear a series of boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom and that's the prima cord lighting the fuses and once that happens after 8 seconds then the columns, it'll start at this corner over here and at about a 45-degree angle, echelon it, roll it over," said Redyke.

To ensure people's safety, an evacuation notice has been put in place. Everyone living within a 500-foot radius of the warehouse must be out of their homes between 4 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sunday. People living within the 500- and 1000-foot radii must remain inside.

"We're anticipating having a great day and everything will work out well and we'll start building our Arterial," Jim Piccola, of NYS Department of Transportation.

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Demolition crews prepared for Fay Street Warehouse implosion