Man Catches Fire In Borough Park Home, Runs For Help Covered In Flames
It was a dramatic scene on the streets of Borough Park, Brooklyn Tuesday afternoon, as a man caught fire and ran for help covered in flames.
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It was a dramatic scene on the streets of Borough Park, Brooklyn Tuesday afternoon, as a man caught fire and ran for help covered in flames.
The incident began at around 8:15 a.m. at 1270 Broadway near 33rd Street.
On Monday, city officials and leaders from the Municipal Labor Committee will meet to discuss the city's plan for battling Ebola should it arrive in the city.
The workers were tested on their ability to control the flames, find the injured and give them emergency medical treatment.
Video from the scene showed only the hull of the small vessel visible above the water.
The fire broke out in a dumpster at around noon and was quickly put out.
Three people were injured Monday evening when a fire broke out in St. Albans, Queens.
An 86-year-old woman suffered serious injuries Friday after being struck by a fire truck in Midwood, Brooklyn.
A power outage has impacted numerous buildings there, some of which are under construction.
A blown tire caused a scare on the Lower East Side Monday. fdny.
Wilbert Riera, 51, was arrested Friday at his Staten Island stationhouse. He will face six counts of sex crimes against children in L.A.
A Staten Island EMS captain has been arrested in Staten Island stemming from a felony warrant out of Los Angeles, CBS 2 confirmed Saturday.
The Tunnel to Towers 5K retraces the steps of fallen firefighter Stephen Siller, who ran to Ground Zero, but never returned home.
Firefighter Daniel Heglund, Lt. Howard Bischoff, and Firefighter Robert Leaver all died Monday as a result of illnesses they came down with while working at the World Trade Center site after the attacks, according to the Uniformed Fire Officers Association.
Lt. Howard Bischoff and firefighters Robert Leaver and Daniel Heglund all died Monday.
The 14-story building is located on West 37th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues in Midtown.
An extra-alarm fire ripped through an apartment building in Bushwick, Brooklyn Saturday evening.
The group was rescued by the NYPD, FDNY and Coast Guard, who brought them back to the Battery Park Marina, where the boat originated.
The fire broke out inside a restaurant on 2nd Avenue at 49th Street and quickly spread to apartments above.
Tracy Lewis was promoted during a ceremony Wednesday. "I worked very hard for this," Lewis said. "I studied very hard for this."
The union representing female firefighters says Tracy Lewis will be promoted Wednesday.
Crews arrived shortly before 1 p.m. after receiving reports that something in a stream along the hiking trail was making people and their pets sick.
The names of 343 firefighters were read and, in the FDNY tradition, a bell rung after each.
Two sons have carried on the tradition set by their father, a firefighter who was killed in the terrorist attacks.
Small plaques inscribed with the names of 13 FDNY employees who died of illnesses directly related to the search for survivors in the rubble at the World Trade Center after Sept. 11 were added to a memorial wall.
