FDNY Battles Early Morning Blaze In Brooklyn
The fire broke out shortly before 3:30 a.m. at a home on 81st Street and Ridge Boulevard in Bay Ridge and quickly spread to a second house.
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The fire broke out shortly before 3:30 a.m. at a home on 81st Street and Ridge Boulevard in Bay Ridge and quickly spread to a second house.
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As a family screamed for help inside their sixth-floor apartment at 50 E. 191st Street in the Bronx at around 3 a.m. on Saturday morning with flames surrounding them, the FDNY sprung into action.
Members of Engine 201 Ladder 114 rescued 33 people one morning last year. Three of them will be honored at the FDNY medal ceremony at the 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue.
Luckily, this time it was a small fire -- just some construction materials that went up in smoke. But it did take over an hour to get the blaze under control due to the challenge of getting water 89 stories up.
The blast occurred at the site of an old Mobil station where workers were removing an underground gas tank, officials said.
The FDNY will also promote Lt. Aldo Adissi of Squad 61 in the Bronx to captain. Adissi is currently deployed with the Air National Guard in Afghanistan.
The fire department responded to a call in Forest Park, Queens about a brush fire in the wooded area of the park at 5:54 on Saturday morning. When the firefighters arrived, they found a dead body in the park about 100 feet off the road.
The FDNY said that one person has died in a fire that broke out in a four-story building on Furman Avenue in Bushwick. The blaze started at around 4:00 on Saturday morning.
The efforts to diversify the department comes in response to a lawsuit charging discrimination in the department's testing and hiring practices.
Retired Deputy Fire Chief Jim Riches, who lost his son on 9/11, is spending the day watching the proceedings via closed circuit at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn along with about three-dozen other families.
A report released Friday also found that the city's fire and police departments are not working together to prepare for the surge in 9/11 calls that would come with a massive crisis such as a terrorist attack.
Police say the SUV was headed south on the Bronx River Parkway when it bounced off the median, crossed all southbound lanes over to the guardrail and fell 50 to 60 feet below on zoo grounds.
Sadness was over The Church of Saint Elizabeth in Lake Ronkonkoma, Long Island as the flag-draped coffin of FDNY Lt. Richard Nappi was brought into the church.
Firefighter Richard Nappi's viewing at the Maloney's Funeral Home in Lake Ronkonkoma will continue Friday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Richard Nappi is being remembered as a hero. The 17-year veteran and father of two devoted his life to public service and responded to the World Trade Center on 9/11.
One firefighter remained in critical condition and four others were listed in serious condition Monday night. A total of eight firefighters were hurt battling the fire, officials said.
A fire quickly spread through the first floor in a home on 189th Street in the Auburndale section of Queens just after 4:30 on Sunday morning, killing one and leaving another seriously injured.
"We had fire in four buildings throughout this operation," said FDNY Chief Ron Spadafora.
"One side of the scaffold started to slip very fast. I don't know what happened or why. It just started to slip very fast," said Anmar Mohammed of Astoria.
An early-morning fire on Saturday in the Gramercy section of Manhattan sent hundreds of hotel guests out into the street. No one was hurt, but the ordeal put a wrinkle in the evening for a wedding party from the United Kingdom.
The scaffold hung precariously 17 stories high as emergency rescue personnel responded to the scene just as one of the workers was trying to get into the building through a window.
Fire officials said a 73-year-old woman is in serious but stable condition after being pulled from the blaze in cardiac arrest.
A man allegedly killed his relatives and tried to blow up a Queens home before getting into a shootout with police in Far Rockaway on Saturday.
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There was a tornado warning in Sussex and Warren Counties in New Jersey as more severe weather passed through our area.
Weather conditions go downhill Tuesday and Wednesday with rain and potentially strong storms on deck for the New York area.
Severe weather impacted the entire region on Tuesday, with watches and warnings throughout the CBS News New York viewing area.
Stormy weather will return to the New York City area Tuesday after a brief reprieve.
Storms brought flooding rains, damaging winds, hail and lightning to New York and New Jersey on Saturday.
Some four inches of rain had been estimated to have fallen in Warren County by 5 p.m., with an estimated three inches in Bergen County.
There was a tornado warning in Sussex and Warren Counties in New Jersey as more severe weather passed through our area.
Parts of New Jersey took a pounding when storms moved in Monday night, causing major flooding and downed power lines.
Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, has paused all gaming and betting on Monday after a small fire and leak.
Weather conditions go downhill Tuesday and Wednesday with rain and potentially strong storms on deck for the New York area.
Auto repair and detailing have long been a male-dominated world. On Long Island, a growing business run by women is helping to change that.
Auto repair and detailing have long been a male-dominated world. On Long Island, a growing business run by women is helping to change that. CBS News New York's Carolyn Gusoff reports.
There was a tornado warning in Sussex and Warren Counties in New Jersey as more severe weather passed through our area.
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Parts of the Tri-State Area are being inundated with rain Tuesday night into Wednesday. CBS News New York Meteorologist Lonnie Quinn has the forecast.
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