By Lia Eustachewich April 9, 2015 | 1:55am The fund for Sept. 11 victims has awarded more than $1 billion to date, with first responders receiving the bulk of the cash, according to a report released Wednesday. Responders are getting $973 million of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, which awards medical and financial aid […]
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Source: Workers Said They Were Told To Do Work On Gas Pipe in East Village Building Before It Blew Up
Newsday – April 07, 2015 by ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO Workers have said they were told to repair a gas pipe authorities suspect sparked the East Village blast on March 26 that leveled three buildings, killed two people and injured 22 others, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation. It was not clear […]
Brooklyn Dad Who Lost 7 Kids in Fire Mourns Family at Passover While Wife, Daughter Still Hospitalized
NY Daily News – April 04, 2015 by Reuven Blau, Oren Yaniv It will be a sad and lonesome Passover for a Brooklyn father who lost seven children in a devastating house fire two weeks ago. Gabriel Sassoon’s Seders will be held without his surviving wife and daughter, who remain hospitalized, family friends told the […]
Plumber Says Landlord’s Son Made Him Illegally Tap Gas Line
NY Post – April 06, 2015 by Rebecca Rosenberg, Frank Rosario and Bruce Golding A plumber who worked at the East Village building where two people died in an explosion last month has admitted to illegally tapping into a gas line there — but said the landlord’s son ordered him to do it, The Post […]
FDNY Truck Marking 150Th Anniversary, $2.8 Million Aston Martin Vulcan Early Favorites Ahead of New York International Auto Show
NY Daily News – April 02, 2015 by Rich Schapiro Move over, Maserati. Among the exotic cars and innovative hybrids on display at the 2015 New York International Auto Show is an eye-catching FDNY fire truck marking the department’s 150th anniversary. The FDNY150 truck sports a design of the city skyline painted in red, white […]
Teen Allegedly Admits to Arson in Unfinished Tottenville House
SI Advance – April 01, 2015 by John M. Annese STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – A teenage arson suspect admitted he and a friend started a blaze in an under-construction Tottenville house, according to prosecutors. Jahlil Valentine, 16, of the 300 block of Ilyssa Way in Arden Heights, made the statement to fire marshals, according to […]
Report: Residents of East Village Building Told Gas Was Being Turned Off Prior to Explosion
SI Advance – April 01, 2015 NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Tenants in an East Village building that exploded may have been told not to tell Consolidated Edison inspectors they had gas service. A law enforcement source tells Newsday residents of 121 Second Ave. were told their gas was being turned off before Con Ed inspectors […]
Up Close: FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro
ABC News – March 30, 2015 by Bill Ritter NEW YORK (WABC) — It was a week of horrible fires for New York and the FDNY. A deadly house fire in Brooklyn killed 7 children last weekend. And then Thursday afternoon – an enormous explosion in the East Village of Manhattan. Firefighters rushed to both […]
Vigil Held For Victim Of East Village Explosion As Investigators Probe Cause
CBS 2 – March 31, 2015 NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – Heartbroken family members held a vigil for one of the two men killed in the East Village building explosion and fire last week, as investigators shift their focus to what caused the blast. Nicholas Figueroa, 23, was a bowling alley worker who had gone on […]
FDNY Puts Out Large Brush Fire at Freshkills Park in Travis
SI Advance – March 31, 2015 by Ryan Lavis STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Firefighters extinguished a large brush fire Monday evening at the former Freshkills landfill site, according to a city Sanitation Department spokesman. The fire appears to have started at Schmul Park in Travis, with the wind then carrying the flames into parts of […]
