Elderly Woman Dies In Overnight Fire On Upper West Side
The blaze broke out just after 1 a.m. Thursday inside an apartment of a five-story building on Columbus Avenue and West 89th Street.
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The blaze broke out just after 1 a.m. Thursday inside an apartment of a five-story building on Columbus Avenue and West 89th Street.
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The call came in around 3:15 pm. Responders were forced to throw smoldering items out of all six windows of the apartment in order to put the fire out.
The fire broke out just before 5 a.m. at a building on 48th Street and 7th Avenue.
According to the FDNY, the fire broke out in a basement of a building on Waldron Street in the Corona section at around 10 a.m.
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The victim made his way to the rooftop of the 23-story building where he managed to open a ventilation shaft and fall several stories.
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Medics transported the two residents -- an 84-year-old male and a 78-year-old female -- to Queens General Hospital where the female succumbed to her injuries.
Authorities say flames broke out at 3:33 p.m. on the top floor of the three-story residence and quickly spread to the space between the ceiling in the roof.
The three-alarm fire broke out in the basement of a restaurant called the Lotus Flame around 2 a.m. on Morris Park Avenue.
The FDNY said it came from the Millennium Hilton at 55 Church Street.
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Two cars above one of the manhole covers also went up in flames, but were quickly extinguished.
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The Port Authority is conducting an emergency response exercise at JFK airport until 3 p.m. Saturday.
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