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,…
A raging fire engulfed and destroyed a row of homes in New Jersey, and officials are investigating whether squatters in a vacant home in the neighborhood are to blame for the inferno. The Irvington and Newark Fire Department responded to the massive three-alarm fire in Newark on Tuesday at around…
Brooklyn-born rapper and producer, Ka — who was also a 9/11 first responder — unexpectedly died over the weekend. He was 52. Kaseem Ryan, known by fans as “Ka,” passed away on Saturday in his hometown of New York City, his grieving family announced on social media. “We are heartbroken…
Firefighters get calls to help cats stuck in trees, but because of the catastrophic flooding from Helene, the fire crew in Kingsport, Tennessee, responded to a call this week to help get a dog who was stranded in a tree. Working with a K-9 search unit from the Murfreesboro Police…
Scores of first responders joined the FDNY’s ranks Tuesday as its academy graduated a fresh fleet of EMTs — including some who hail from long lines of proud civil servants. Javon Fabien, who walked in the morning ceremony at Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn alongside 86 other graduates, is one…
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…
A Queens fire left a 7-year-old girl and her mom critically hurt and two Bravest hospitalized Sunday — the day after a borough blaze gutted a string of homes and injured four, including a pair of firefighters. The child and her 29-year-old mother were pulled from the house fire on…
An elderly victim described by neighbors as “the nicest guy” died in a Queens house fire early Sunday morning after more than 100 firefighters took two hours to extinguish the flames, officials said. The 82-year-old man, who has not been identified, perished in the three-alarm blaze that sparked out of…
A Chicago firefighter’s entire family was tragically killed in the days after their house caught on fire – a scene he rushed to after hearing his home address over the radio dispatch at his job last week. Firefighter Walter Stewart’s three children – all younger than 10 — and his…
A woman in California died early Christmas morning in a heartbreaking house fire sparked by an artificial Christmas tree. Destiny Abdrazack, 22, was celebrating Christmas Eve with her fiancé’s family in their North Highlands home when an electrical short from the tree ignited a roaring fire around 2 a.m. Sunday,…
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