At Least 32 People, Including Firefighters, Hurt

At Least 32 People, Including Firefighters, Hurt in Roaring Brooklyn Fire: FDNY Published at 5:35 AM EST on Jan 22, 2018 | Updated at 2:07 PM EST on Jan 22, 2018   Almost three dozen people were injured after a roaring fire that sent residents out their windows to escape broke out inside an apartment building […]

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Fire Rips Through Brooklyn Apartment

Dozens injured as fire rips through Brooklyn apartment By Joe Marino January 22, 2018 | 2:45am | Updated Modal Trigger Robert Stridiron Almost three dozen people were injured – two of them children – when a fire broke out on the first floor of a Brooklyn apartment building Sunday night, police and fire department officials said. […]

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Threat of Falling Ice Shuts Down Chicago Street

Threat of Falling Ice Shuts Down Chicago Street By Lisa Chavarria Sunday, Jan 7, 2018     A portion of a street in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood was closed Sunday because of the threat of falling ice from a frozen-over high-rise. A broken sprinkler system on one of the upper floors of a building at 615 […]

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At Least 23 Hurt In 7-Alarm Fire In The Bronx

At Least 23 Hurt In 7-Alarm Fire In The Bronx January 2, 2018 at 5:10 pm NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Nearly two dozen residents and one firefighter were hurt in an early morning seven-alarm fire in the Bronx. The fire is believed to have started around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday in a furniture store inside a four-story […]

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AT LEAST 22 CIVILIANS, FIREFIGHER HURT IN LARGE SCALE FIRE

WTVA, NY: A fire that ripped through a four-story mix-use building in the Bronx Tuesday morning has injured at least 22 people … A fire that ripped through a four-story mix-use building in the Bronx Tuesday morning has injured at least 22 people and a firefighter, as crews battled freezing temperatures in their fight against […]

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Bronx fire escape was choked with people

Bronx fire escape was choked with people: ‘There was no room,’ says survivor   JULIA JACOBO Friday, December 29, 2017 08:31PM Survivors of the New York City apartment building that was engulfed in flames Thursday night described their harrowing attempts to escape the blaze. The deadly fire was sparked by a 3-year-old boy who was […]

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12 dead, 4 injured in fast-moving fire

12 dead, 4 injured in fast-moving New York City apartment building fire At least 12 people were killed and more were seriously injured on Dec. 28, 2017, in a fire at an apartment building on a frigid night in the Bronx in New York. Jennifer PeltzAssociated Press The deadliest residential fire to hit New York […]

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Man fatally falls from fire escape after fight with girlfriend

A man who threatened his girlfriend with a knife early Sunday fell to his death after losing his footing on the fire escape as he tried to climb back into their Bronx apartment, police said. Pedro Polanco, 27, and his 36-year-old girlfriend had friends at their flat on 182nd St. near Mapes Ave. in Belmont […]

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Reading man jailed after burglary at apartment house

READING, PA – City police arrested a man after he broke into an apartment house in the same south Reading neighborhood where he lives, investigators said Monday.Terence R. Barber, 29, of the 400 block of South Fifth Street was taken into custody shortly before noon Saturday. Police said that Barber was arrested after one of […]

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trapped on fire escape of burning building

Firefighters rescue people trapped on fire escape of burning building in New Jersey   ABC 7 Eyewitness NewsTuesday, November 28, 2017 01:04PMUNION CITY, New Jersey (WABC) — Firefighters made a dramatic rescue in New Jersey Tuesday morning as they helped people trapped on the fire escape of a burning building. The third-alarm fire broke out […]

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