Roof and fire escape collapse at downtown church during storm

DON MORGAN OCT 25, 2019 @ 6:37AM SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) – Part of the roof and fire escape at Travis Park United Methodist Church collapsed during the storm around 12:30 Friday morning. “We were called for a structure collapse, but when the first crews arrived, they determined it was a partial roof collapse,” said […]

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FDNY Firefighters Injured in Bronx Building Blaze

Twelve FDNY units responded to the fire that broke out on the sixth floor of a seven-story Bronx building and also injured two residents, one seriously. MICHAEL SHERIDAN NOVEMBER 4, 2019 NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Four people, including two firefighters, were injured in a blaze in the Bronx early Monday. A call came in just […]

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NJ Firefighter, Police Officer Injured in 3-Alarm Blaze

The firefighter received an electric shock and the police officer suffered smoke inhalation responding to a Bloomfield apartment blaze that left seven families displaced. NOAH COHEN NOVEMBER 7, 2019 NJ ADVANCE MEDIA GROUP, EDISON, N.J. A firefighter and a police officer were hurt in a three-alarm fire that burned at a Bloomfield apartment building, forcing seven families […]

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Fights Break Out Between Tenants, NYPD Outside Apartment Fire

This post was updated at noon on Sept. 4, 2019. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There was chaos in the Bronx Tuesday night. As firefighters worked to stop a building from burning, fights broke out between frantic residents and police. Nobody was seriously injured in the apartment fire, but two tenants are now under arrest. Authorities tell […]

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CBS Boston Exclusive: Expert Says Rotted Boston Fire Escapes Are ‘Landmines Ready To Explode’

Expert Says Rotted Boston Fire Escapes Are ‘Landmines Ready To Explode’ BOSTON (CBS) — WBZ-TV has discovered troubling information about a recent fire escape collapse in the Fenway neighborhood. Two people were hurt when they fell to the ground. The owner has not filed a required safety inspection certificate since at least the late 1980’s, […]

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How Safe Are Fire Escapes in NY

New Yorkers often treat these archaic means of egress as their own private balcony, but should they? By Jeremiah Budin Sep 18, 2018, 11:34am EDTSHARE Max Touhey New York City is full of peculiar phenomena—rickety fire escapes; 100-year-old subway tunnels; air conditionerspropped perilously into window frames—that can strike fear into the heart of even the […]

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5 Things to know about Fire Escape NY

One of the most memorable appearances of an NYC fire escape was in West Side Story. The movie West Side Story is a riff on Romeo and Juliet set in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York’s Upper West Side in the 1950s, so it fits that the star-crossed lovers court each other not from a balcony, but a New York fire escape. […]

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West PA Residents Questioning Fire Escape Safety

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Residents are questioning the safety of the building after two people were critically injured when a fire escape balcony collapsed at an apartment complex in West Philadelphia on Tuesday morning. It happened at Lexington Apartments on the 4200 block of Chester Avenue, shortly after 10 a.m. According to police, two men were […]

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Two men critically injured in West Philly balcony collapse

Two men were critically injured Tuesday in the collapse of a third-floor fire escape landing in West Philadelphia, police said.

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