Volunteers Prepare For Disaster, Practice Fighting Fires And Saving Lives In NYC's Emergency Simulation
The city's emergency management department held a disaster simulation in the Inwood section of Manhattan, to get volunteers trained.
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The city's emergency management department held a disaster simulation in the Inwood section of Manhattan, to get volunteers trained.
Tenants scrambled to escape as the flames spread. Two were hurt – one taken to the hospital in serious but non-life-threatening condition.
Flames broke out around 9 a.m. at a house on Livermore Avenue in Westerleigh.
The fire broke out around 2:30 a.m. at a building on Van Dam Street and Nassau Avenue in Greenpoint.
Authorities said Wang sprang into action when Liam Glinane, a 63-year-old medical technician, had a stroke while driving an ambulance and crashed on the BQE.
The 15-year veteran died in the line of duty back in March 2018 while battling a blaze on the set of Edward Norton's new movie "Motherless Brooklyn."
Boyle lost a long battle with cancer on Sunday.
The victim was trapped for two hours. Crews had to break down a wall to save them.
According to the FDNY, the EMT was responding to a medical call in the Bronx when the assault occurred.
CBS2's Ali Bauman reports the woman fell through the hole – that was partially being covered by a metal plate – on 35th Street and Eighth Avenue around 2:30 p.m.
"We're not believers in coincidences, except for today, it was an extremely tragic coincidence," FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said.
It happened around 10 p.m. at Rogers Avenue and Crown Street in Crown Heights.
Photos posted by the FDNY show smashed windows and what appears to be the Star of David scratched onto a window.
Several families no longer have a home following a fire early Monday morning in Brooklyn.
The flames could be seen shooting out of the roof of the building on Grand Concourse near East 172nd Street in the Mount Eden section.
The five-alarm blaze started on the sixth floor of an apartment building on the Grand Concourse by East 172nd Street around 8 p.m.
The NYPD is taking steps to protect FDNY EMTs and medics working in the Rockaways after they received terroristic threats.
Malcolm Moore is one of 12 battalion chiefs promoted to deputy chief at a ceremony in Brooklyn.
A graduation ceremony was held in Brooklyn this morning for 301 probationary firefighters.
Firefighters say seven people were injured in the fire Friday evening, two of them seriously.
It is taking the New York City fire department longer to respond to fires and other emergencies.
In a solemn ceremony Friday, the names of 22 firefighters were added to the FDNY World Trade Center Memorial Wall in downtown Brooklyn.
Authorities tell CBS2 police were trying to keep people out of the firefighters' way, but as residents watched their building burn, panic quickly turned into conflict.
The blaze was mostly contained to the third floor of a building on West 160th Street.
Investigators are trying to figure out what caused a construction accident in the Bronx on Tuesday left one worker dead and two others seriously injured.
