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It was the third-worst residential fire in the United States in four decades, [7] and the deadliest fire in New York City since the Happy Land nightclub fire, which occurred nearby in 1990. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] The Bronx fire was also the second major residential fire in the Northeastern United States within a one-week period, occurring four days after ...
Black Sunday has been used to describe January 23, 2005, when three firefighters of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) died in two fires: two at a tenement fire in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx, with four others being seriously injured, and one at a house fire in the East New York section of Brooklyn.
28 – Gardiner Fire Department (2 sta.'s) 29 – Glasco Fire Company; 30 – High Falls Fire Department; 31 – Highland Fire Company (2 sta.'s) 32 – Hurley Fire Department; 33 – Kerhonkson, New York Fire Company; 34 – Kripplebush-Lyonsville Fire Company; 35 – Lomontville Fire Company; 36 – Malden-West Camp Fire Department (2 sta.'s)
The fire started at around 7 p.m. Sunday in a 10th-floor apartment in a public housing complex in the Bronx, a Fire Department spokesperson said. Fire marshals determined that the fire was caused ...
Firefighters received the call just before 3:30 a.m. at W. 231 St. and Broadway, about one block away from a train station in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx.
The New York City Fire Department is the largest municipal fire department in North America, and the Western Hemisphere, and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department. [ citation needed ] The FDNY employs over 11,000 uniformed firefighting employees, 4,500 uniformed EMTs, paramedics, and EMS employees, and 2,000 civilian ...
At least one person died and five people were hurt in a fire in the Soundview section of the Bronx on Saturday, the FDNY said. Bronx fatal fire leaves 5 injured, 2 NYPD officers hospitalized ...
Two bills that the Council passed in May 2018 include Int 0609-2018, which requires the fire department to create a plan on educating children and parents on fire-safety, and Int 0602-2018, which requires doors in R-1 and R-2 residential buildings to be self-closing by July 31, 2021. [11]