Three firefighters were injured while battling a blaze in the Bronx Monday night as horrified residents stood outside watching their building burn. The flames broke out on the fifth floor on the five-story building on St. Mary’s Street in Mott Haven around 8 p.m. and quickly consumed the top half of the building, according to […]
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Frightening moment an item bursts into flames on the NYC subway
A fire mysteriously broke out on a New York City subway seat early Sunday. Witnesses near the F train at the Second Avenue station took out their cell phones to capture footage of a bizarre blaze which appeared to have destroyed someone’s jacket or bag. In an Instagram video captioned ‘Ahh, New York’ by user stibbanski, several people are heard […]
Memorial Mass Honors Firefighters Killed in BX in Fire 13 Years Ago
News 12 – January 21, 2018 by News 12 Bronx THE BRONX – A memorial Mass on Saturday honored the lives of the three firefighters killed in the line of duty in a Bronx fire 13 years ago. Lt. Curtis W, Meyran, John G. Bellew and Joseph P DiBernardo were forced to jump to their […]
Gas Explosion in Brooklyn Apartment Injures Four People, One Seriously
NY Daily News – January 21, 2018 by BYRON SMITH, THOMAS TRACY A gas explosion ripped through a Brooklyn apartment Saturday, injuring four people, one seriously, officials said. The blast blew out a window and set off a small fire inside the second-floor apartment on Bay 49th St. near Cropsey Ave. in Bath Beach about […]
Bodies of identical twin sisters found when FDNY responds to water leak in Brooklyn home
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Bodies of identical twin sisters were discovered in a Brooklyn home after authorities were called to the location for a water leak. FDNY responded about 2:30 p.m. to a home on Union Street near Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights after a neighbor called about flooding in the basement. When they went […]
FDNY hero reunites with woman he saved in 2002 when she was a child — and now she’s a firefighter
Anissa Cruz and retired FDNY Lt. Steven McNally were reunited at the Engine Company 75 / Ladder 33 firehouse in the Bronx on Monday. McNally saved Cruz from a fire in 2002. (GO NAKAMURA/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) Nearly 16 years after Bravest Stephen McNally saved a little girl from a raging Bronx inferno, she returned as […]
Man, teen killed in fatal Bronx apartment fire
THROGS NECK, the Bronx — A man and a teenager were killed after a fire broke out at a Bronx building Sunday afternoon, FDNY said. Neighbors say the victims were a father and his daughter. Around 12:12 p.m., fire officials received a call about a fire that started on the fourth floor of the seven-story […]
Basement fire sparks large FDNY response
A fire that ignited in the basement of a Meiers Corners home early Sunday morning drew a large response from the city Fire Department (FDNY). (Google Maps) The fire, which started in the basement of a single family home at 573 Ingram Ave. just after midnight, was extinguished by 12 FDNY units of 65 firefighters […]
Victims blame child welfare agency for deadly Bronx blaze along with the FDNY
By Julia Marsh January 11, 2018 | 2:34pm | Updated The Bronx building where a fire took 13 lives in December 2017. The mother of the 3-year-old blamed for last month’s Bronx blaze that killed 13 people was “known to’’ authorities and child-welfare workers for not watching the boy — yet the city did nothing, new court documents allege. Eleven claimants […]
Washington Heights Fire: 2nd Blaze Breaks Out, FDNY Say
The Patch – January 10, 2018 by Brendan Krisel, Patch National Staff WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A fire broke out Tuesday morning in the same building where a 7-alarm fire injured 14 people on Monday, an FDNY spokeswoman said. Firefighters returned to 775 Riverside Drive — located near the Hudson River and West 156th Street […]
