Nov. 22, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell The FDNY honored Chaplain John E. Delendick with a World Trade Center plaque dedication at Engine Company 257, Tower Ladder 170, and Battalion 58 in Canarsie on Friday, the first anniversary of his line-of-duty death. Delendick, who joined the FDNY in 1996, died on Nov. 22, 2023, after…
Oct. 22, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell A pet bunny named Kenny had a “hoppy” reunion with his family after firefighters rescued him from a Dyker Heights house fire on Tuesday morning. Units from the FDNY’s 8th Division responded to the blaze on 73rd Street between 12th and 13th avenues, which broke out in the…
Oct. 22, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell Firefighters battled a high-rise apartment fire late Monday night in Starrett City. Units from Battalion 58 arrived at 45 Twin Pines Drive just after 10:45 p.m. on Oct. 21 to find heavy flames coming from a 19th-floor apartment in the 20-story building. Engine Company 257 and Engine Company…
Sep. 11, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell A Brooklyn firehouse honored several of its own on the 23rd anniversary of 9/11, one of many commemorations taking place across Brooklyn and New York City on Wednesday. Members of Engine Company 214 and Tower Ladder 111 in Bedford-Stuyvesant remembered five firefighters who were killed during the terrorist…
Apr. 23, 2024 By Emily Davenport & Lloyd Mitchell
Firefighters battled a blaze that broke out within multiple Bensonhurst dwellings on Tuesday.
Feb. 5, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell & Meaghan McGoldrick O’Neil
One person is dead and three others, including a toddler, are in critical condition Monday after a fatal fire in Boerum Hill Sunday afternoon.
Sep. 18, 2023 By Lloyd Mitchell Three people were injured in a house fire in East New York early on Monday morning. Flames erupted on the second floor of an attached two-story home at 106 Louisiana Avenue just after 6:15 a.m., according to the FDNY, and were burning through to the exterior of the house when firefighters arrived on the scene. The blaze left three residents with minor injuries, per the FDNY, but all civilians were able to evacuate and non were trapped inside the building as the fire progressed. Using four hose lines, firefighters were…
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Sep. 6, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
A manhole fire in Crown Heights temporarily interrupted Con Edison service in the area after the blaze damaged numerous cables.
Jul. 10, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer & Lloyd Mitchell
Two people were left in critical condition after an all-hands fire in Brownsville on Sunday night.
May. 16, 2023 By Isabel Song Beer
Gerritsen Beach in southern Brooklyn is home to one of the last remaining volunteer firefighting units in New York — but the city hasn’t made it easy on them.