Tag: new-york-city-fire-department

Bath Beach apartment building fire injures 4 as firefighters rescue trapped residents

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Jul. 14, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell Four people were injured by an all-hands fire at a Bath Beach apartment building on Saturday morning. The blaze broke out on the top floor of four-story building at the corner of Cropsey Avenue and Bay Parkway at 11 a.m. on July 12, according to…

Bed-Stuy house fire leaves 2 injured, 11 displaced

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Jul. 7, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A two-alarm house fire in Bed-Stuy displaced 11 people and injured two, including a firefighter, on Saturday. The blaze broke out on the second floor of a two-family home on the 500 block of Halsey Street at 9:30 a.m. on July 5, according to the…

Two-alarm house fire displaces 8 people in East New York

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Jun. 13, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell Eight people were displaced by a two-alarm fire at an East New York home on Thursday evening. Firefighters arrived on the scene on Chestnut Street near Pitkin Avenue just before 5:30 p.m. on June 12,  according to the FDNY, as heavy flames and smoke engulfed…

Construction worker dies after partial roof collapse in closed Marine Park steakhouse

firefighters on scene of deadly marine park roof collapse

Jun. 5, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A 43-year-old construction worker died from injuries he sustained in a partial roof collapse in Marine Park on Thursday. Workers were conducting repairs and installing a new refrigeration unit inside a rear addition to a closed steakhouse at 3223 Quentin Road just before 9 a.m.…

Firefighters quickly extinguish blaze at Breukelen Houses

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May. 23, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell The fire marshal is investigating the cause of an all-hands fire that broke out at Breukelen Houses on Friday morning. The blaze began just after 9:30 a.m. on the first floor of a three-story apartment building on Glenwood Road near East 108th Street in Canarsie,…

Fire burns through multiple Brownsville businesses, rattling locals

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Apr. 23, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell An all-hands fire burned through multiple buildings and left several homes and businesses damaged in Brownsville on Wednesday morning.  The fire broke out in a deli on Newport Street between Saratoga Avenue and East 98th Street just before 10:30 a.m., according to the FDNY. Smoke…

At least 12 people displaced after fire in problem-ridden Flatbush apartment building

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Apr. 18, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A two-alarm fire at a Flatbush apartment building displaced on Thursday morning displaced at least 12 people, just over three years after a blaze in the same building left dozens of residents effectively homeless. The fire broke out in a bedroom on the third floor…

Fire at NYCHA’s Brownsville Houses leaves 13 people injured

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Mar. 20, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen More than a dozen people were injured and nine hospitalized after a large fire at NYCHA’s Brownsville Houses on Wednesday night.  Firefighters responded to reports of a fire on the fourth and fifth floors at 268 Osborn St. just after 7 p.m. on March 20, according to the…

Fire at Bay Ridge apartment building leaves two injured

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Mar. 19, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A fire in a large Bay Ridge apartment building left at least two people injured on Wednesday morning. The blaze broke out on the third floor of a seven-story building on 3rd Avenue near 99th Street around 11 a.m., per the FDNY. When firefighters arrived…

Three-alarm fire destroys century-old Brooklyn church

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Feb. 19, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A three-alarm fire consumed a Bushwick church on Wednesday morning.   The fire started at the more than century-old Iglesia Pentecostal Arca Cristiana at 1155 Halsey Street at around 10:30 a.m., and firefighters moved in “aggressively,” said FDNY Chief of Operations Kevin Woods. But with the…