NYCHA faces another wrongful death suit for Harlem fire that killed 6 By Priscilla DeGregory August 18, 2020 | 3:01pm Enlarge Image Photo of the Pollidore family seen on a GoFundMe pageGoFundMe The city’s housing authority is facing another wrongful death suit for the fatal fire that killed a mother and her four kids in a Harlem apartment last year, […]
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Fire Escape FaQs Episode #1
Youtube auto captioning: 0:00:14.920,0:00:18.640 wow all right so the most frequently asked 0:00:18.640,0:00:22.640 question that we have regarding acs in a window 0:00:22.640,0:00:26.160 you know you have your bedroom uh you rent this out to a college 0:00:26.160,0:00:29.920 student or you rent it out to your family i mean your family is using it 0:00:29.920,0:00:34.640 […]
Read more...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. […]
Read more...Woman Critical after fire escape fall
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NFPA Fire Escape Plan for Fire Prevention Week
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has announced “Not Every Hero Wears a Cape. Plan and Practice Your Escape!” as the theme for Fire Prevention Week.
Read more...Here’s why you don’t see many fire escapes in Denver
It might ease your mom’s concerns. A fire escape in North Capitol Hill. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite) David SachsYesterday, 1:00 p.m Let’s answer an obscure question about your city. My editor, Ashley, asked me to find out why Denver doesn’t seem to have fire escapes, so I went to find the real answer instead of pretending I […]
Read more...Woman sues over husband’s death from falling fire escape
By Priscilla DeGregory March 19, 2019 | 5:35pm | Updated Enlarge Image Richard MarchhartSupplied A widow has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the owners of a Soho building where a metal fire escape step fell seven stories striking her husband in the head and killing him. Andrea Marchhart, 57, filed the suit this week, just over a year after her husband, Richard […]
Read more...Brooklyn Fire Spurs Tenant Pleas To Fix Faulty Heat
A fire at 82 Rockaway Parkway left three people wounded over the weekend and tenants say dangerous building conditions are to blame. BROWNSVILLE, BROOKLYN — Three people were hurt when a fire erupted in a crumbling Brownsville apartment complex last weekend and now tenants are demanding the landlord fix building problems they say put their […]
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