Aug. 9, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell
A man barricaded himself inside a home in Ocean Hill on Thursday afternoon and set it on fire, keeping NYPD officers and FDNY firefighters at bay for hours.
Jul. 29, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell
Three separate fires across Brooklyn from Friday night to Saturday morning left 12 residents injured.
Jul. 24, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell
Firefighters rescued 11 residents and two firefighters sustained minor injuries during a two-alarm fire in Sunset Park on Tuesday night.
Jun. 27, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell
Firefighters rescued three people from an apparent lithium-ion battery fire in Midwood early on Thursday morning.
Jun. 11, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell
Firefighters battled two Brooklyn fires almost simultaneously on Saturday afternoon.
May. 2, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell & Kirstyn Brendlen
A dilapidated garage in “The Hole,” a small neighborhood on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, went up in flames on Tuesday afternoon.
Apr. 25, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell
A cat is onto its next of nine lives after being rescued from a house fire in Brownsville on Thursday.
Apr. 23, 2024 By Emily Davenport & Lloyd Mitchell
Firefighters battled a blaze that broke out within multiple Bensonhurst dwellings on Tuesday.
Apr. 22, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell
An all-hands fire tore through a Bath Beach apartment building on Sunday night after a resident said she dropped a candle inside her apartment.
Apr. 16, 2024 By Dean Moses & Brooklyn Paper staff
A Brooklyn merchant wound up in fire marshals’ handcuffs for improper storage of highly-flammable lithium-ion batteries inside his business — the first arrest of its kind ever reported in New York City, FDNY officials announced Monday.