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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
