Wednesday, January 10, 2018 04:36PM NEW YORK – This year marks the 20th anniversary of WABC’s award-winning program, “Operation 7: Save a Life,” but unfortunately fires are still very much in the forefront. December was the deadliest month in decades, fire deaths increased overall in 2017 and first […]
By Kayla Simas KSimas@siadvance.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Fire marshals have determined that a two-alarm fire at a home in New Dorp on Monday was caused by a bed being in close proximity to a space heater, according to the FDNY. The blaze at the two-story residential building at 273 Edison St., was deemed accidental. The FDNY announced the findings on […]
Journal News editorialPublished 1:27 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2018 | Updated 3:56 p.m. ET Jan. 9, 2018 (Photo: SUBMITTED) CONNECTTWEETLINKEDIN 2COMMENTEMAILMORE FDNY Lt. (Ret.) Joseph Stach Jr., cited for bravery so many times as a firefighter, known as a friend in his community and a hero to his family and to us all, has died. The culprit […]
A fire in Upper Manhattan injured over a dozen people on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018. (Credit: FDNY via Twitter) NEWS By Lauren Cook and Rajvi Desai lauren.cook@amny.com January 9, 2018 More than a dozen people were injured in a seven-alarm fire, sparked accidentally by a toaster, in upper Manhattan on Monday, according to the FDNY. The fire broke out […]
NY Daily News – January 04, 2018 by THOMAS TRACY The Brooklyn fire that killed two longtime friends was sparked by a space heater, FDNY officials said Wednesday. Ernestine Moore, 79 and Arthur Madison, 76, died on Dec. 29, when their building on Patchen Ave. near MacDonough St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant went up in flames, authorities […]
By Paul Stremple January 3, 2018 Last night’s fire broke out at 910 Bergen Street in Crown Heights, before spreading to two neighboring buildings David Slotnick /BKLYNER CROWN HEIGHTS – Last night’s fire that broke out in a two-family building on Bergen Street spared its residents, but resulted in minor injuries to six firefighters and one […]
W YORK — FDNY first responders from all corners of the department are begging the public to be safe in the wake of several deadly fires. The new Public Service Announcement digital campaign #FDNYSmart began popping up on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on Dec. 14. The rollout of the PSAs coincided blow-for-blow with several fatal […]
BY THOMAS TRACY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Wednesday, January 3, 2018, 8:10 PM The FDNY is getting its “fifth man” back. The department has decided to bring back a fifth firefighter to the 10 engine companies that lost them last month. The additional firefighters had been pulled from these houses and sent to different stations […]
Last week, a dozen people including children died when a fast-moving fire swept through another building near the Bronx Zoo By Tracie Strahan Published at 6:47 AM EST on Jan 2, 2018 | Updated 3 hours ago At least 23 people were hurt, nine of them children, as a seven-alarm fire swept through a multistory building near […]
A Bronx fire injured nearly two dozen people on Tuesday morning, Jan. 2, 2018, the FDNY said. (Credit: Lou Minutoli) By Nicole Brown nicole.brown@amny.com January 2, 2018 At least 23 people, including nine children, were injured in a Bronx fire early Tuesday morning, the FDNY said. The fire started in a furniture store on the first floor of a […]
