Tag: fire-department

Residents evacuate Starrett City high-rise as firefighters respond to 19th-floor inferno

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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…

‘Steeped in tradition’: Brooklyn firehouse honors fallen on 23rd anniversary of 9/11

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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…

3 injured in early-morning house fire in East New York

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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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Manhole fire knocks out electricity in Crown Heights

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.