Two killed in early-morning Bronx fire, officials say By Michael Herzenberg | March 5, 2018 @11:02 PM “I heard everybody yell, ‘Fire, fire, get out!’” Paul Madsen said he was just trying to get to sleep when one of his neighbors banged on his door. Herzenberg: What’d you see once you got out? Madsen: Just […]
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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 […]
Read more...Thousands of NYC fire escapes rust away without inspection
By Jim Hoffer Tuesday, February 27, 2018 06:16PM NEW YORK CITY (WABC) — When a step fell seven stories from a SoHo building’s fire escape two weeks ago, it struck a man walking below in the head, killing him. The incident also exposed the city’s weak oversight of these aging steel structures. Cisco Meneses, […]
Read more...Wood Plunges Construction Site, Hits Girl in Head
Wood Plunges From NYC Construction Site, Hits Girl in Head The 8-year-old girl, named Tatiana, needed staples to her head but is expected to be OK, according to her family By Adam Kuperstein Published at 2:44 PM EST on Feb 23, 2018 | Updated at 6:50 PM EST on Feb 23, 2018 What to […]
Read more...80 displaced as apartment building abruptly condemned
80 displaced as New Haven apartment building abruptly condemned; Problems were long-standing By Jessica Lerner and Mary E. O’Leary Updated 10:23 pm, Friday, February 23, 2018 NEW HAVEN — About 80 city residents were evacuated from their Norton Street apartment complex Thursday afternoon when authorities abruptly condemned the five-story, century-old building due to unsafe conditions. Jason […]
Read more...ABC6: Fire escape collapse injures 1 in Brewerytown
BREWERYTOWN (WPVI) — A fire escape collapsed in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown section on Tuesday, sending one person to the hospital. The Action Cam was there as a man was wheeled into an ambulance on a stretcher just after 2 p. Though officials aren’t releasing much information, we know it happened in an alley near 29th Street […]
Read more...Dangerous Philadelphia fire escapes
Action News Investigation: Dangerous Philadelphia fire escapes By Wendy Saltzman Wednesday, May 06, 2015 PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — The pressure is on for Philadelphia lawmakers to tighten lax inspection laws which critics warn have resulted in catastrophic fire escape collapses across the city. For the first time on camera, the victims involved in a […]
Read more...The Great Escape
The Great Escape Fayola Powell Feb 06, 2018 The traditional way of evacuating buildings during emergencies can be very problematic; limited exits, panicked people stampeding, etc. Many lives can be lost while people are overwhelmed by the overarching emotions of fear, anxiety, and confusion. In the early 1800s, French inventor M. Daujon developed an invention […]
Read more...NY Times: What Happened at the Bronx Fire
At least 12 people were killed when a fire rushed through a five-story apartment building in the Bronx on Thursday night, New York City officials said. Four of the dead were children. The fire was caused by a 3-year-old boy playing with the knobs on a stove, city officials said. His mother ran out of […]
Read more...Chinatown Tenants Forced Into Shelter Fear Landlord Won’t Let Them Return
Residents of 85 Bowery worry a broken staircase could be used as a pretext to evict them More than 85 people were forced out of their embattled Chinatown building last Thursday when the city declared the building unsafe — and they fear the landlord, who has been trying to evict them for years, will now […]
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