2 jump from second-floor window to escape blaze

2 jump from second-floor window to escape blaze in Highland Park 1 / 36 Firefighters battle a blaze at a house in Highland Park. July 26, 2016 (Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com PrintEmail By Spencer Kent | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com  Email the author | Follow on Twitter […]

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Firefighters Rescue Children

Firefighters Rescue Children From Delaware County Fire Escape Firefighters saved a three children and two adults after they escaped onto a fire escape as flames tore through Delaware County apartments overnight. The blaze broke out as many residents slept inside a subdivided home at W 3rd and Yarnall streets in Chester, Pennsylvania around 12:30 a.m. […]

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Tipp City bookstore fire

Updated: 7:03 p.m. Tuesday, June 21, 2016 | Posted: 5:15 a.m. Tuesday, June 21, 2016 Tipp City bookstore fire: 3 hurt, up to $1M damage 3 people taken to hospitals for smoke inhalation   By Breaking News Staff TIPP CITY — Three people were taken to hospitals after fire destroyed a Tipp City bookstore Tuesday […]

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For Fallen Comrades

Essex police & fire band steps up for fallen comrades Di Ionno Instructor Mike Glackin checks Joe Brogan’s drones as George Hemmer looks on during practice for the Essex County Police and Fire Emerald Society Pipes and Drums at The Shillelagh Club in West Orange on May 9, 2016. (Alexandra Pais | For NJ Advance […]

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1 Hurt After Fire Escape Collapses in Brooklyn

1 Hurt After Fire Escape Collapses in… The FDNY told News 4 Investigates on Monday that the last time the fire escape had been inspected was in 2014 and that the building’s owner never received a a violation. Andrew Siff reports. (Published Monday, March 21, 2016) A fourth-floor fire escape partially collapsed while a man […]

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Williamsburg Fire Engulfs Woops Bakeshop, Five Injured

BY SCOTT HEINS IN NEWS ON FEB 24, 2016 11:36 AM Five people, including three firefighters, were injured Wednesday morning in a two alarm fire in Williamsburg. The blaze consumed the first two floors of 522 Driggs Avenue, near the corner of Driggs and North 7th Street, causing serious damage to Woops Bakeshop.     Firefighters responded to the blaze […]

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Construction worker, 62, dies after plunging six stories in East Harlem

BY  CHELSIA MARCIUS,  ROCCO PARASCANDOLA NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, February 4, 2016, 4:09 PM MICHAEL SCHWARTZ/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS The man, 62, fell to his death while grabbing equipment being passed to him by a worker standing near him on scaffolding. A 62-year-old construction worker plunged six stories to his death in East Harlem Thursday […]

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Fire renders Montclair building uninhabitable

Fire renders Montclair building uninhabitable FEBRUARY 1, 2016    LAST UPDATED: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2016, 6:38 PM BY NICHOLAS KATZBAN STAFF WRITER | THE MONTCLAIR TIMES A three-alarm fire caused extensive damage to a mixed-use building in Montclair’s Central Business District this past Saturday, closing businesses, displacing residents and sending two people to the hospital. STAFF PHOTO […]

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Two adults, one child die in East St. Louis house fire

Two adults, one child die in East St. Louis house fire   Fatal House Fire Sunday In East St Louis snagy@bnd.com BY CAROLYN P. SMITH csmith@bnd.com LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTEREST REDDIT PRINT ORDER REPRINT OF THIS STORY EAST ST. LOUIS  Two adults and a small child died in a house fire Sunday in the 2000 block of […]

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Bronx Apartment Building Fire Leaves 1 Dead, 3 Injured

Bronx Apartment Building Fire Leaves 1 Dead, 3 Injured   January 3, 2016 1:08 PM Filed Under: Fires, Ilana Gold, James Turtein, Wakefield NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — One man was killed and three other people were rushed to the hospital with minor injuries after a fire broke out early Sunday morning at a Bronx apartment complex, authorities said. The blaze started […]

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