Fire unions livid as funding for 9/11 health fund excluded from federal budget, funds in jeopardy
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Fire unions livid as funding for 9/11 health fund excluded from federal budget, funds in jeopardy

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Fire unions and advocates are calling out congress for failing to secure the funding for the 9/11 victim’s healthcare program after their agreement to keep the government open. Budget negotiations in congress have resulted in the failure to fund the WTC Healthcare program…

NYC building inferno leaves man dead as charred bikes, propane tanks seen in rubble
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NYC building inferno leaves man dead as charred bikes, propane tanks seen in rubble

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines One man was killed and another critically hurt when an early-morning inferno ripped through a Brooklyn home Tuesday, officials said. The fire erupted around 1:20 a.m. on the first floor of the three-story building on Vermont Street near Dumont Avenue in East New…

Wild video shows fire engulf Queens commercial building
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Wild video shows fire engulf Queens commercial building

Towering flames and thick plumes of smoke engulfed a Queens strip mall early Saturday afternoon.  One firefighter was taken to Northwell Health with minor injuries from battling the two-alarm blaze in the rear of 62-16 Woodhaven Blvd., between 62nd Avenue and 62nd Road, which housed Uzbeki restaurant Taste of Samarkand,…

Slow FDNY response times spur 80% death rate for NYC cardiac arrests
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Slow FDNY response times spur 80% death rate for NYC cardiac arrests

Four out of five New Yorkers who go into cardiac arrest die as the FDNY’s response times to medical emergencies continue to soar. City firefighters and medics revived just 20% of all cardiac-arrest patients during the fiscal year ending June 30, the worst success rate since the FDNY began documenting…

NY Girl, 7, killed in New Year’s Day house fire on Staten Island
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NY Girl, 7, killed in New Year’s Day house fire on Staten Island

New Year’s Day turned tragic on Staten Island after a 7-year-old girl was killed in a house fire, police and fire officials said. The blaze erupted shortly after 5:30 p.m. inside a two-story home at 110 Brookside Avenue in the Castleton Corners neighborhood. Video taken at the scene shows firefighters…

E-bike battery sparks another huge NYC blaze, guts grocery store and injures 7
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E-bike battery sparks another huge NYC blaze, guts grocery store and injures 7

An e-bike sparked a massive hours-long blaze that gutted a Bronx grocery store and injured seven people — two seriously — on Sunday, officials said. An EMS worker and a civilian were seriously hurt when flames broke out around 10:40 a.m. at the Concourse Food Plaza at 2096 Grand Concourse…

Stricken partner of FDNY EMT Yadira Arroyo recalls how tragic day unfolded
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Stricken partner of FDNY EMT Yadira Arroyo recalls how tragic day unfolded

The stricken former partner of slain EMT Yadira Arroyo described in Bronx court Tuesday how a routine day suddenly turned tragic when a deranged man hijacked their ambulance. Monique Williams recalled to jurors in painful detail how she and Arroyo, a beloved 44-year-old mom of five, were driving to a…