A man is in critical condition after reportedly setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC Sunday afternoon.
The DC Fire and EMS services were dispatched to the scene shortly before 1 p.m., a spokesperson confirmed to The Post.
By the time first responders arrived, the flames had already been extinguished by members of the US Secret Service, the fire service added.
The man was transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The man was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. @GLZRadio/Twitter
The Israeli Embassy did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment on the incident.
No embassy staff were injured during the fire, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, according to GLZ Radio.
Fire trucks and other emergency vehicles – including hazmat crews – were subsequently spotted arriving at the scene to deal with a suspicious vehicle, freelance reporter Andrew Leyden shared on X.
The incident comes after months of political tensions over Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack and Israel’s subsequent ground operations in the Gaza Strip.
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 crawling through the second-story window of the home, decked in Christmas lights, as thick smoke billows out.
The young girl was rescued from the home and rushed to Richmond University Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead an hour after the fire sparked, the NYPD said.
The blaze erupted shortly after 5:30 p.m. inside a two-story home at 110 Brookside Avenue in the Castleton Corners neighborhood. Citizen App
There were no other reported injuries, according to FDNY officials.
The fire was brought under control minutes before the young girl died in the hospital.
Neighbors told ABC7 that the New Year’s Day tragedy comes on the heels of another family death.
Firefighters were seen crawling through the second-story window of the home, decked in Christmas lights, as thick smoke billows out. Citizen AppThe fire was brought under control minutes before the young girl died in the hospital. Citizen App
The girl’s grandmother, who helped raise her, passed away just before Thanksgiving.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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 control at the two-story home at 218-01 36th Ave in Bayside at about 5:40 a.m., according to fire officials.
“When the fellas pulled up, it was fully involved,” FDNY Battalion Chief Brian Deery said at a morning press conference.
The elderly man was the only person in the house, Deery said.
Firefighters found him severe burns in the back of the home on the second floor, authorities said. Emergency medical workers pronounced him dead at the scene.
The quiet suburban neighborhood still smelled of smoke and ash Sunday afternoon. Homes on both sides of the blackened husk of a house showed signs of the conflagration, including melted siding and blown-out glass windows.
Neighbors told The Post that the victim was a friendly, helpful older Italian man who belonged to the local Knights of Columbus and St. Josaphat Roman Catholic Church in Bayside.
It took nearly 100 firefighters almost two hours to knock down the three-alarm fire in Queens.Seth Gottfried An 82-year-old man died in the blaze, authorities said. Seth Gottfried
He handed out cards and money at the church’s Bingo nights and knew everybody in the neighborhood, according to one of his neighbors, a woman named Liz.
“He was a wonderful guy,” Liz told The Post. “It’s a shame to die this way, and to die alone too … He never talked about anybody, he’d do anything for anyone.”
“I never saw anything like it this morning,” said another neighbor, who has lived across the street from the victim for more than two decades. “Flames just engulfed the house.”
Neighbors described the elderly victim as a “wonderful guy.” Seth Gottfried Homes on both sides suffered damage, firefighters said. Seth Gottfried
Deery said firefighters struggled to work inside the home because of the darkness, the thick black smoke and a severe amount of clutter.
“You’re going in and you really can’t see anything and you have clutter … you’re searching and you’re bouncing into things,” Deery said. “It’s hard to maneuver … so it kind of delays the search.”
But Deery added that the mess did not stop firefighters from reaching the victim promptly.
Fire officials are still investigating the fire’s cause, the chief said.
The three-alarm fire in Bayside was extinguished at about 7:20 a.m.Seth Gottfried
After a deadly fire in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, some victims’ families and friends are still looking for answers about their loved ones.
A kidnapping victim who was beaten, bound, and then forced into the trunk of his own car narrowly escaped after the suspected kidnappers crashed the vehicle into a residential home.
The Seattle Police Department received multiple calls early Thursday morning that a car had crashed into a home in the Ravenna, Seattle, neighborhood and caught fire.
“I heard a screeching noise and then just the most sickening crunch,” neighbor Cheng Yu told KING 5.
When officers arrived on the scene just after 5 a.m., witnesses reported a man claiming he had been kidnapped crawled out of the trunk of the fiery vehicle.
Before emergency personnel arrived on the scene, startled residents noticed the car had begun to catch fire and starting to spread to the corner of the home.
Neighbors reported hearing screams from within the car as it was on fire before the victim appeared from the trunk.Seattle Police Department
Homeowner Brooks Mierow told the outlet he quickly got his family out of the home, grabbing a fire extinguisher to put out the flames before firefighters arrived.
As Mierow fought the fire, Yu was on the phone with 911 dispatchers when they heard muffled screams from inside the vehicle.
“We heard a screaming of, ‘Ahh, ahh.’ I think he was trying to scream for help,” Yu told KING 5.
Witnesses were in shock as the victim, a 63-year-old unidentified male, frantically crawled out from the vehicle’s trunk.
Luckily because of the homeowner’s efforts to extinguish the fire before emergency personnel arrived, the home wasn’t severely burnt from the crash.Youtube/KING 5 Seattle
Still bound and panicking, the victim was seen screaming that he had been “kidnapped” and needed help by the trunk of his car when neighbor Raegan McKibbon arrived to assist the man.
McKibbon — who told the outlet she saw two men fleeing from the scene after the crash — took the victim across the street and gave him socks and a coat as they waited for police and the fire department to arrive.
“He was beat up pretty bad. They had cut his face with a knife and had beat him up pretty badly,” McKibbon said.
The Seattle Fire Department was able to extinguish the fire before it spread further to Mierow’s home, while also treating the victim for non-life-threatening injuries.
The suspected kidnappers have yet to be apprehended by law enforcement.Youtube/KING 5 Seattle Part of the vehicle’s bumper was lying in the home’s yard. Police continue their investigations into the kidnapping, which lead to the car wreck. Youtube/KING 5 Seattle
The victim was then taken to Harborview Medical Center, The Seattle Police Department reported.
Yu, who was glad the victim was in care and that no one else was hurt, was in disbelief at the incident.
“You can’t make this stuff up. It’s just so absurd,” Yu told KING 5.
A spokesperson for the department, Officer Judinna Gulpan, told the outlet that the kidnapping did not appear to be targeted.
The victim reported to investigators that several individuals had assaulted him before he was tied up and stuffed into the trunk of his car.
No arrests have been made.
Detectives did detain one 18-year-old male for questioning, who matched the description of a possible suspect, but he was later released.
Police are asking anyone with information involving the kidnapping attempt to call the SPD Violent Crimes Tip Line at (206) 233-5000.
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 wife succumbed to injuries from Tuesday’s deadly blaze.
Stewart didn’t originally respond to the fire, but once he heard his address over radio dispatch he was quickly taken there and even administered CPR to his wife, the fire department said.
Firefighters are spotted at the scene where Walter Stewart’s 2-year-old son, 7-year-old son, 9-year-old daughter, and wife died.CBS Chicago
All four of the family members reportedly suffered from smoke inhalation.ABC 7 Chicago
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Stewart’s 7-year-old son Ezra Stewart died Wednesday and his wife, Summer Day-Stewart, perished Thursday at 36.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office said Stewart’s 9-year-old daughter Autumn Day-Stewart and his 2-year-old son Emory Day-Stewart died Friday, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
All four of the family members reportedly suffered from smoke inhalation.
They were all originally rescued from the burning home and rushed to the hospital, officials said.
The fire started in the kitchen and its cause is under investigation, according to authorities.
In wake of the shocking deaths, Stewart has agreed to donate organs from each family member to others who might need a transplant, a fire department source told the Sun-Times.
Flowers are left at the front of the house’s doorstep to honor the victims. ABC 7 Chicago
The Chicago Fire Department started a fundraiser to help Stewart’s family as loved ones deal with an “unspeakable tragedy.”
“Please keep the Stewart Family in your thoughts and prayers,” the department wrote.
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 in the West Bronx section, officials said. Five firefighters suffered minor injuries.
The quick-moving fire was blamed on a scooter’s lithium-ion battery and rose to five alarms, requiring over 50 units and more than 200 firefighters to douse it.
Mayor Adams went to the scene and used the incident to call attention to the batteries, which have sparked a slew of recent fires in the city, some of them fatal.
“We have witnessed this over and over again, and that is why we’re going to continue to amplify the message that a simple device like this, this charred scooter, is only a symbol of what is happening behind us and what has continued to take place since early this morning,” Adams said Sunday afternoon. “We’re still fighting the fire because of the type of device the fire started from.”
An e-bike sparked a massive hours-long blaze that gutted a Bronx grocery store and injured seven people on Sunday, officials said. Tomas E.Gaston The fire was blamed on a scooter’s lithium-ion battery, requiring over 50 units and more than 200 firefighters to douse it. Tomas E.Gaston
Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh said the bike caused “extraordinary damage.
“This entire building behind me is completely destroyed,” Kavanagh said. “The roof is caved in. There’s nothing left. And it is all because of this single bike.”
Firefighters could be seen carrying the burnt bike away from the scene.
Fires caused by e-bike batteries killed six people in the city in 2022, officials said. Those blazes were among 219 started by the batteries last year and left another 147 people injured.
A New York City billionaire staged a private New Year’s Eve display that set a hillside ablaze near his New Zealand estate — and nearby residents are reportedly smoking mad.
“It’s just a joke that an out-of-towner can come in and set off a 14-minute commercial firework display and then burn the hill down,” neighbor Johnny Quinn fumed.
“It basically upset the entire neighborhood. Everyone within the area had to make plans. People changed their holiday plans,” he said.
Malkin, CEO of Empire State Realty Trust, owner of the iconic Manhattan building, set off the fireworks despite a petition from neighbors opposing it, Quinn said.
Neighbors asked Tony Malkin not to set off the private fireworks display.Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire/picture-alliance/dpa/AP ImagesThe fire burned 1.2 acres of hillside in New Zealand.Copyright Crux Publishing Ltd.
The show went up in flames — and the unilateral move isn’t “the Kiwi way,” said Quinn.
The blaze tore through 1.2 acres of property before firefighters stopped it within feet of buildings owned by Malkin, the outlet reported.
Locals, many of whom opposed the fireworks because they traumatize wildlife and livestock, are demanding a ban on private pyrotechnical displays.
According to one neighbor, the fireworks show went on for 14 minutes. Copyright Crux Publishing Ltd.
Malkin has reportedly not apologized to his neighbors for the fire. Copyright Crux Publishing Ltd.
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Malkin has yet to apologize to neighbors for the fire, Quinn said.
The billionaire declined to comment through a spokesperson, except to say he and his family are grateful for the “the expert work” of cops and firefighters who responded to the blaze, according to the outlet.
He didn’t return The Post’s request for comment Thursday.
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, local NBC affiliate KCRA3 reported.
Abdrazack yelled that there were flames, awakening the five others in the house, which didn’t have working smoke alarms, according to her fiancé’s father Ernest Isom.
“She was the one who yelled fire, and that’s the sad part,” Isom told KCRA3 of the woman who was to be his future daughter-in-law. “She saved our lives.”
Abdrazack was pulled out of the burning building by firefighters, but later died at an area hospital.
The five others in the house — Isom, his wife and son and two other adults — survived.
Isom said the family had fallen asleep without turning off the Christmas tree lights.
“Unfortunately, they wanted to keep the lights on until the last minute and we all happened to fall asleep and we had an instant, seconds to get out,” he told the station. “It was fast, and that’s how quick it went. I’m talking minutes.”
Two family dogs also died in the fire and the house was destroyed.
Neighbors told the local news station that they woke up to a loud sound and looked out the window to see flames shooting out of the home.
“You could see the flickering light on the tree and that’s kind of like the telltale sign of a fire,” Richard Byers said.
He ran out of his house and grabbed a fire extinguisher while another neighbor used a garden house to try to put out the inferno to no avail.
“The fire just came right back,” Byers said. “It was too intense, moving too fast.”
His wife, Brandy Byers said when they came out of their home three doors down they saw Isom’s family standing outside shouting for help.
“They were screaming, ‘Destiny! There’s someone inside! There’s someone inside!” Brandy Byers told KCRA3. “There [was] nothing any of us could do.”
Firefighters rescued Abdrazack from the living room of the home and she was taken to an area hospital in critical condition.
Her family confirmed her death the next day and set up a GoFundMe to raise money to cover her hospital and funeral expenses.
A New York-bound JetBlue flight from Barbados was jolted by more than the drastic temperature drop Saturday evening — when the plane was forced to evacuate at JFK International Airport due to a “smoking laptop.”
The aircraft had just rolled into Terminal 5 when an airline worker noticed the overheated computer, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
The 133 passengers were promptly evacuated from the plane — and some opted for the emergency chute, the Port Authority of New York told The Post.
Sixty-seven passengers escaped down the inflatable slide after several guests activated the emergency doors, a PANY spokesperson said. The remaining passengers exited through the jet bridge at Gate 29.
The flight crew called the fire in around 9 p.m., but extinguished the flames themselves.
Several people were treated for minor injuries at the airport following the mass evacuation of the plane.Gabriele Holtermann
A passenger seated in the front row of the plane said the captain “came flying out of the cabin” when the fire was discovered.
“He grabbed a fire extinguisher, and was doing like an O. J. Simpson over the seats and passengers. The guy was amazing, and put the fire out. It was a complete zoo,” Sean Weed told CBS.
Seven people were treated with minor injuries, but none were transported to area hospitals.
The spark may have been caused by the laptop’s lithium battery, the PANY said, though the specific details of the fire are still being investigated.
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