Quick work by Olean police, firefighters prevents tragedy at apartment fire Tenants helped down ladders, awoken from bed by first responders By TOM DINKI, Olean Times Herald Nov 6, 2017 OLEAN — Olean police officers and firefighters responded to 114 E. Oak St. during the early morning hours of Oct. 30 to find a scene […]
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That Flowerpot on the Fire Escape Could Be a Killer
Oct. 24, 2017 — Ignore house rules and city and state laws at your peril. Ah, the perils and pitfalls of cooperative living. A shareholder in a co-op in Morningside Heights possesses a green thumb, evidenced by the flourishing potted plants on his window ledges and fire escape. When he waters his plants, alas, the […]
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Can a Neighbor Keep Flowerpots on a Fire Escape? Ask Real Estate By RONDA KAYSEN OCT. 22, 2017 Q. I live in a co-op in Morningside Heights. My upstairs neighbors keep plants on their window ledges and fire escape. When they water them, the runoff streams down my windows and into my apartment […]
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14 injured as fire burns through Brooklyn apartment building Eyewitness News Monday, October 16, 2017 03:28PM BOROUGH PARK, Brooklyn (WABC) — Fourteen people were injured, one seriously, in an early morning fire at a Brooklyn apartment building. The three-alarm blaze broke out just before 5 a.m. Monday in a kitchen on the second […]
Read more...Bronx Teen Takes Fatal Plunge After Going Out On Fifth-Story Fire Escape To Smoke
A 15-year-old Bronx boy fell five stories to his death Thursday morning after sneaking from his bedroom onto a fire escape, while still in his pajamas, to smoke, police said. Leonardo (Lenny) Marmolejos fell from the fire escape that runs down the back wall of his apartment building on Briggs Ave. near E. 199th St. […]
Read more...Deadly apartment fire in Brooklyn caused by careless smoking, FDNY says
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) —
Authorities say a deadly apartment fire in Brooklyn Thursday night was accidental, caused by careless smoking.
56-year-old Rupert Smith was killed in the blaze that broke out just after 10 p.m. in a six-story apartment building on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights.
Investigators say the fire broke out in Smith’s second-floor apartment and spread.
When firefighters arrived, the fire was out the second-floor window.
Once inside, firefighters found Smith in an apartment. He was unconscious and had burns all over his body.
A look inside the apartment where a 56 year old man was killed in a fire last night. The fire was contained to one apartment . @ABC7NY
Smith has a history of setting fires and that is part of the investigation, the FDNY said.
Residents had to quickly rush out to escape.
“I told the kids to go out. By the time I went back in to grab my robe, the kids were coming back up because they were overtaken by the smoke,” said tenant Shatoya Killings. “So we had to make our way through the fire escape. But we couldn’t get down because the ladder wasn’t down so we had to stay at the bottom of the fire escape.”
Four residents in the building were treated for smoke inhalation.
‘lucky’ to have escaped
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Read more...Exclusive Video: Bronx Apartment Fire Leaves 10 Injured, Fire Escape Saves Lives
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Nearly a dozen people are recovering from injuries and several families are without a home after a Bronx apartment building went up in flame on Monday. The fire started just before noon on 163rd Street in the Melrose section. Exclusive video obtained by CBS2 shows people scrambling down a fire escape […]
Read more...10 injured in Hunts Point Bronx
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Read more...A fire fighter climbs up the fire escape ladder outside Famous Familiga Pizza to join others battling the blaze
A fire tore through a luxury Greenwich Village apartment building on Wednesday after an ‘explosion’ on the sixth floor. Plumes of smoke billowed from The Hamilton at 60 East 9th street after the blast at around 5.45pm. Forty-four FDNY vehicles raced to the scene and hoisted fire fighters on to the roof to tackle the […]
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