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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Brooklyn Pastor Held On Bail In Charges In Deadly Flatbush Fire

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Brooklyn pastor was behind bars late Thursday, charged with manslaughter in a fire that left a man dead. As CBS2’s Hazel Sanchez reported, the fire happened two years ago. But police just caught up with the Rev. Luckner Lorient in Florida Tuesday night, and he was in Brooklyn Criminal Court in […]

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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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Estate of Woman, 26, Who Died After a Fall Plans to Sue New London

The intent to sue claims the city should have known that the area wasn’t safe. New London, CT By BRIAN MCCREADY (Patch Staff) –  March 6, 2016 4:40 pm ET Next on Patch » 2 Fugitive Murder Suspects Held Overnight in New London Estate of Woman, 26, Who Died After a Fall Plans to Sue New London The intent to […]

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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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Apartment Fire Displaces Occupants

Written by Darryl Woodson     North Randolph Street Fire Update Wednesday, 5 p.m. Noah Duncan stood behind the house at 201 N. Randolph St. this afternoon waiting for a locksmith to come and open his car door. The Washington and Lee senior hadn’t locked his keys in the car − he’d lost them, along with […]

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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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