WNBC 4 – April 20, 2016 A resident has died in a Brooklyn house fire, officials say. Eight firefighters were also injured while responding to the blaze in Prospect Lefferts Gardens at about 6 p.m., mostly from smoke inhalation, the FDNY said. It’s not clear what sparked the fire, which started on the second floor […]
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Matt’s 5K Race Remembers a Fallen Firefighter Hero
SI Advance – April 19, 2016 by Jim Waggoner They came out in droves Sunday morning for the second annual Matt’s 5K Race, honoring the memory of fallen FDNY Lt. Gordon (Matt) Ambelas. A spring-like day with sunny skies attracted another 400 or so runners to a revised Clove Lakes Park course featuring a challenging […]
Busted Water Main Causes Midtown Street to Buckle
NY Post – April 13, 2016 by Audrey Williams and Daniel Prendergast A water main break caused massive plumes of steam to come swirling up from under a Midtown street Monday, shutting down an entire block. Utilities were cut to several buildings along West 58th Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues after the main burst […]
Man Struck and Killed by Brooklyn Subway Train in Suspected Suicide
NY Daily News – April 13, 2016 by John Annese A man was struck and killed by a Brooklyn subway train, in what authorities believe to be a suicide Monday afternoon. The man, whose identity has not been released, was hit by a northbound 3 train at the Crown Heights-Utica Ave. station at about 4:05 […]
An Amazin’ Offer: Private Sale of Mike Piazza 9/11 Jersey Could Lead to Public Display
NY Daily News – April 14, 2016 by Christian Red, Michael O’keeffe Ken Goldin has never pulled an item from his auction to offer it in a private sale — but the sports memorabilia executive said he’s willing to make an exception to keep Mike Piazza’s 9/11 jersey on display in New York. In a […]
Extreme Hoarding: NYC Team Tackles Both Mess and the Mind
Associated Press – April 05, 2016 by Verena Dobnik In the frantic aftermath of an East Village gas explosion last year that leveled three nearby buildings, the firefighters who arrived to evacuate Adam Chrin’s fourth-floor apartment were confronted by an entirely different disaster. They found him nearly entombed in filth and squalor, amid hoarded, floor-to-ceiling […]
A Workhorse on the Hudson River, Now Retired From Fighting Fires, Chugs Toward a Second Act
NY Times – April 05, 2016 by NOAH REMNICK ABOARD THE JOHN D. McKEAN, in Tarrytown, N.Y. — On a gleaming Thursday morning in March, a candy red fireboat rattled awake and set forth from its station in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. As the ship voyaged north along the Hudson River at nine knots, it […]
Fire at Queens Dry Cleaners Rages for Nearly Five Hours, as Kitchen that Makes School Lunches Destroyed in Brooklyn Blaze
NY Daily News – April 05, 2016 by Rikki Reyna, John Annese A persistent five-alarm blaze engulfed a Queens dry cleaners, sending heavy smoke billowing into the sky as firefighters struggled with the blaze. The fire broke out just after 3:40 p.m. at 13th St. and 40th Ave. in Long Island City and burned for […]
Rooftop Fire Tears across 5 Brooklyn Apartment Buildings, Leaves 5 Injured
NY Daily News – March 31, 2016 by Kerry Burke, Andy Mai, John Annese A raging six-alarm inferno sent flames tearing across five Brooklyn apartment building rooftops Tuesday, as firefighters searched floor-by-floor by flashlight for possible victims. Five people suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the blaze that broke out around 10 p.m., on DeKalb Ave. between […]
FDNY Investigates Cause of Queens House Fire
NY 1 – March 31, 2016 The city fire department is trying to figure out what started an early morning fire that burned through two homes in Queens early Tuesday morning. Flames broke out just after 2 a.m. inside a house located at 23-41 91st Street in East Elmhurst. The fire then spread to a […]
