10 Story Building Challenges Firefighters

Small Equipment Fire on Roof of 10 Story Building Challenges Firefighters with Difficult Access – 11/08/17   At 0835 this morning fire crews were dispatched to a report of a fire at 715 SW Morrison. This is a 10 story high rise building and the fire was reported to be in a piece of equipment […]

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FDNY EVACUATES MOM AND BABY FROM BROOKLYN FIRE ESCAPE

FDNY EVACUATES MOM AND BABY FROM BROOKLYN FIRE ESCAPE Twitter photo via @NYCFireWire By NY1 News  |  November 7, 2017 @9:08 AM   City fire crews on Monday worked to quickly evacuate a mom and her infant after a fire engulfed a building in Brooklyn. Flames broke out around 3 p.m. on the second floor […]

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Tenants helped down ladders, awoken from bed by first responders

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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FIRE ESCAPE PLANS FOR APARTMENTS

Fire Escape Plans For Apartments GOLDEN TRIANGLE, Miss. (WCBI) – Two big fires at two apartment complexes destroy people’s lives this past weekend, but no one died. One happened in Starkville and the other in Vernon, Alabama. It was a close call for residents, but it’s why firefighters say you should have an escape plan. […]

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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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INSIDE NFPA NEWS, NEW PROJECT BEING EXPLORED: REMOTE INSPECTIONS?

INSIDE NFPA NEWS Volume 21 – Number 10 Remote Inspections On the heels of a white paper written and presented by the Building Code Development Committee and a recent article in the NFPA Journal, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standards Council is in receipt of a New Project Initiation Request for the development of […]

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Flowerpots on a Fire Escape?

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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Fire tears through Sanford neighborhood

Fire tears through Sanford neighborhood, destroying apartment buildings A resident of the building where the fire started said she climbed down a fire escape to get out and was one of 4 people taken to a hospital for various reasons, including smoke inhalation. BY DENNIS HOEY STAFF WRITER AND EDWARD D. MURPHY STAFF WRITER Firefighters […]

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Man injured after jumping out third floor window to escape fire

Man injured after jumping out third floor window to escape fire. Gray Hall reports during Action News at 9 a.m. on October 14, 2017. (WPVI) ABC6 – FRANKFORD (WPVI) — A man was injured after jumping from a third floor window to escape a fire in Philadelphia’s Frankford section. Firefighters were called around 7:30 a.m. […]

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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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