Queens Fire That Destroyed More Than A Dozen Businesses Ruled Accidental
In a tweet, the FDNY said the 4-alarm fire, which broke out Wednesday afternoon on Roosevelt Avenue, was sparked by cooking on a stove.
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In a tweet, the FDNY said the 4-alarm fire, which broke out Wednesday afternoon on Roosevelt Avenue, was sparked by cooking on a stove.
It happened at 167th Street and Edgecombe Avenue when the FDNY says a water main break caused the surface of the street to collapse.
Officials say eight firefighters suffered minor injuries battling a 4-alarm fire in Staten Island.
People were yelling for help from a fire escape in the Bronx early Monday morning. Firefighters rescued them as smoke and flames spread through an apartment building.
The 44th annual FDNY vs. NYPD hockey game will take place March 18, and for the first time, it will be played at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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.
According to police, the male was attempting to cross the Parkway when he was struck by an FDNY ambulance travelling southbound around 8:13 pm.
A four-alarm fire at an apartment building on Manhattan's West Side has 20 residents trapped on the roof and inside, the FDNY said.
Last month, Dylan Cresta was playing with a scooter in his driveway in Astoria when he was hit by a minivan and pinned underneath the vehicle.
Two cars above one of the manhole covers also went up in flames, but were quickly extinguished.
The fire began around 8:30 a.m. inside an apartment on the 13th floor of the building on Mother Gaston Boulevard in Brownsville.
Police sources say a vehicle hit an unmarked police car at Farragut Rd. and E. 49th St. The striking vehicle then took off with police in pursuit.
The Port Authority is conducting an emergency response exercise at JFK airport until 3 p.m. Saturday.
A multi-agency investigation is underway into the deaths of 1-year-old Scylee Vayoh Ambrose and her 2-year-old sister, Ibanez Ambrose, who were both severely burned by a steam leak in their apartment on Wednesday.
The blaze broke out on the fourth floor of an apartment building around 4:45 a.m. Thursday on Sanford Avenue.
It happened around noon in a first floor apartment on Hunts Point Avenue in the Hunts Point section.
A mechanic for the New York City fire department is being honored for saving taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars through his ingenuity.
Daniel Torres, 33, of Rahway, New Jersey, was arrested on the Staten Island Expressway on his way to work Tuesday morning.
Two men were arrested after allegedly stealing an official FDNY vehicle sitting in front of a hospital in the Bronx on Saturday night.
The call came in around 3:45 a.m. for the fire on East 24th Street.
One worker was killed inside the cab of the crane, while another stood outside, guiding the 6,500 pound I-beam, FDNY Deputy Chief George Healy said.
