fire in apartment building – Germantown Philadelphia.

Tuesday, January 22, 2019 05:04PMPHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — Residents ran out into the frigid cold after a fire broke out in an apartment building in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. The trees surrounding the building now look like icicles, and cars parked on the street are covered in ice, after firefighters doused the building with water to […]

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Burned Thurston Road building a total loss

December 10, 2018 07:07 PM Fire destroyed an apartment building at 440 Thurston Road on Monday, leaving the building a total loss that had to be demolished. Fire ripped through the old building that housed 28 apartments. Only nine apartments were rented. The fire started around 8:30 a.m. waking people out of their sleep and […]

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Owner of building with rotting fire escape hit with 48 violations

By Michaelangelo Conte The Jersey Journal The owner of a Jersey City building where a rusted, rotting fire escape snapped beneath the feet of residents fleeing a fire Monday has been slapped with 48 fire code violations, Jersey City officials said. The owner of 500 Garfield Ave., a management company in Clifton, was cited for failure to properly maintain […]

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Philly fire escape law not being followed

Expert says Philly fire escape law not being followed By Tom MacDonald April 25, 2017   This 2014 file photo shows a fourth-floor fire escape landing in Rittenhouse which collapsed with three people standing on it, killing one. (Emma Lee/WHYY, file) A deadline is rapidly approaching for inspecting every fire escape in Philadelphia. The requirement took […]

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Fire Escapes are “Ticking Time Bombs”

Many City Fire Escapes are “Ticking Time Bombs” By Kelly Bayliss Published Feb 26, 2014 at 3:55 PM | Updated at 3:02 AM EST on Feb 27, 2014 In the wake of last month’s fatal fire escape collapse that killed a 22-year-old man and injured two women, Philadelphia residents are concerned about the safety of […]

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Fire escape collapse leaves one injured 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.m. Though officials aren’t releasing much information, we know it happened in an alley near 29th Street […]

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NYPD: MAN DIES AFTER PIECE OF SOHO FIRE ESCAPE FELL ONTO HIS HEAD

NYPD: MAN DIES AFTER PIECE OF SOHO FIRE ESCAPE FELL ONTO HIS HEAD By Angi Gonzalez  |  February 17, 2018 @3:46 PM     When Howard St. at Broadway finally re-opened Friday night, it was easy to see where a step fell from an escape and onto two people below. Just hours earlier, the heavy […]

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Pedestrian Struck by falling fire escape piece – has died

  PEDESTRIAN STRUCK Man dies after piece of fire escape fell 7 stories in SoHo   By Tim Fleischer Sunday, February 18, 2018 10:17AM SOHO, Manhattan (WABC) — A man has died after a piece of a fire escape fell seven stories in Manhattan Friday afternoon. Two other people were injured in the accident, one […]

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Man Dies After Being Hit By Piece Of SoHo Fire Escape

<span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start” data-mce-style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;”></span>   Man Dies After Being Hit By Piece Of SoHo Fire Escape That Plummeted 7 Stories February 17, 2018 at 9:20 pm Filed Under:Dave Carlin, Local TV, Manhattan, soho NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Long Island man […]

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