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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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Fire Escape Step Plunges 7 Stories in Lower Manhattan

Fire Escape Step Plunges 7 Stories in Lower Manhattan, Hits 2 People on Street: Officials   By Erica Byfield Published at 2:57 PM EST on Feb 16, 2018 | Updated at 1:04 AM EST on Feb 17, 2018   WHAT TO KNOW Two people were injured after a step from a fire escape fell seven […]

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Falling step from SoHo fire escape critically injures two people

Falling step from SoHo fire escape critically injures two people   A pair of unsuspecting SoHo pedestrians were critically injured Friday when a 150-pound metal fire escape step plunged seven stories onto their heads, officials said. “The girl wasn’t moving,” eyewitness Imola Kobar, 41, told the Daily News. “It was just horrible. Their heads were […]

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Fire kills mom and disabled daughter

Raging Brooklyn fire kills mom and disabled daughter, as 70 other residents escape The blaze, sparked by an electrical heater, raced quickly through the four-story Belmont Ave. building around 1:30 a.m., with both victims pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital. (Danny Iudici/for New York Daily News) BY Adam Shrier Thomas Tracy Larry Mcshane NEW YORK […]

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14 injured as fire burns

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 […]

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Victim on Fire Escapes Burning Trinity Bar Building in New Haven: FD

Fire broke out in apartments above Trinity Bar in New Haven Friday and one person injured in the fire is in critical condition at the hospital, according to fire officials. Officials received reports of people trapped inside the building just before 2 p.m. after seeing heavy smoke and fire coming from the building on Orange […]

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