3 Killed After Car Speeds Past Dead End Sign, Plunges Into Newtown Creek In Long Island City
Witnesses told CBS2 the driver was speeding down Borden Avenue in Long Island City and the car appeared to accelerate as it barreled past a dead end sign.
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Witnesses told CBS2 the driver was speeding down Borden Avenue in Long Island City and the car appeared to accelerate as it barreled past a dead end sign.
Flames sent thick, black smoke into the air over Bleeker Street.
The fire marshal is still investigating the cause of the fire.
The department answered hundreds of calls last year, and is expecting the same this year.
The plant supplies power fort he Warbasse Houses, a self-contained development of more than 2,500 apartments in Brooklyn.
It happened around 9 p.m. Saturday on Jennings Street.
Video shows the flames shooting from the roof. Officials said the fire broke out just before 5 a.m. at the building on Park Avenue near 162nd Street. More than 130 firefighters responded.
Firefighters were called to the burning two-story home on Hunts Point Avenue around 6:20 p.m. Friday.
Witness video shows flames shooting out of windows of the apartment building at the corner of 82nd Street and Second Avenue at around 8:30 a.m.
Crews responded to the scene on Bleecker Street just before 6 p.m. Officials said the fire was under control by around 8:30 p.m.
It grew to eight alarms and took hundreds of firefighters nearly 12 hours to put out.
Others honored Wednesday included paramedics Niall O'Shaughnessy and Joshua Rodriguez, who responded to a building collapse, treating several injured construction workers inside.
The FDNY says the blaze is finally under control. Now, the investigation can begin.
The fire broke out around 1 p.m. Tuesday in a six story building on 34th Avenue between 89th and 90th Streets in Jackson Heights.
Judge was killed when the World Trade Center towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.
Heavy smoke filled the air and hundreds of firefighters responded to the scene.
Flames were seen pouring out of a three-story home on Mason Avenue in the Midland Beach section of the borough.
Amid Sunday night's storm, parts of an apartment building in the Bronx went up in flames.
More than 100 firefighters responded to the scene.
Police say 35-year-old Justin Deieso got into an argument around 4 a.m. Saturday outside a bar on Francis Lewis Boulevard in Whitestone.
The FDNY said flames broke out on the fifth floor of a building in the Highbridge section of the borough at around noon on Sunday.
It happened just after 9 p.m. Friday on West 134th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem.
Firefighters responded shortly after midnight to the fourth floor of a building on Bank Street near Eighth Avenue.
Firefighters gave the boy aid until an ambulance arrived and took him to a hospital, police said.
After extinguishing the flames, they found an 80-year-old woman unconscious and unresponsive suffering burns.
