Tag: fire

Eight barrels of evidence recovered from NYPD warehouse blaze, advocates still seek answers

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Mar. 28, 2023 By Adam Daly

Over three months after the fire that ripped through a Red Hook warehouse, which stored decades-old New York City Police Department evidence, legal advocates are still seeking answers from the city about how it plans to address the impact it may have on pending criminal and exoneration cases.

Seven months after Bushwick fire, tenants tally to oust ‘negligent’ landlord, get back home

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Mar. 23, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith

On August 12, 2022, Mercedes Toribio woke up early to feed her elderly mother and was hit by the smell of smoke in her Bushwick apartment. She immediately got her mother out of bed and onto the street and called 911. She then frantically alerted her neighbors to get them out of the building, she said.

Grand re-re-re-opening: One year after Red Hook Tavern fire, eatery finally settles in

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Mar. 13, 2023 By Kirstyn Brendlen

In the wee hours of March 12, 2022, an electrical fire broke out in the basement of the Red Hook Tavern — a cozy restaurant and bar on Van Brunt Street. Smoke rose up through the restaurant on the ground floor and into the apartments above, where a tenant called 911.

Williamsburg injures two civilians, one firefighter

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Feb. 28, 2023 By Lloyd Mitchell

FDNY personnel battled a large blaze in a Williamsburg building on Tuesday morning, leaving two civilians and a firefighter injured. 

One person dead in Crown Heights fire

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Feb. 27, 2023 By Lloyd Mitchell

One person is dead after a large Crown Heights fire that engulfed an apartment on Monday morning.