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Fire Truck Crashes Into Gravesend Storefront

Fire Truck crashes into a storefront. (Photo via Hillel Lichtenstein)GRAVESEND – Six people are injured after a fire truck crashed into a car and then a storefront last night. On Sunday, December 20 at around 11:30 p.m., a fire truck was responding to a fire on Bay Parkway

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Man Dead After Crashing Car Into Garbage Truck

At the scene of the crash. (Photo via Loudlabs)CANARSIE – A 32-year-old man is dead after crashing his car into a sanitation truck early yesterday morning. On Sunday, December 20 at around 3:46 a.m., Kenneth T. Pamphile was driving a 2002 Nissan Altima and was traveling westbound on

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Six People Hurt In Pitkin Avenue Fire This Morning, Including Four-Year-Old Boy

Fire on Pitkin Avenue early this morning. (Photo: Loudlabs NYC)EAST NEW YORK – A four-year-old boy and five more people including two firefighters were injured in an early morning fire. This morning at around 1:15 a.m., a fire broke out on the top floor of a three-story apartment

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Fire Rips Through Canarsie School

The fire that took place early Sunday morning. (Photo: Loudlabs NYC)CANARSIE – A private school caught on fire early Sunday morning. On Sunday, September 27 just ten minutes before 6:00 a.m., a fire tore through the Yeled V’Yalda Early Childhood Center, located on Farragut Road near Ralph

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One Dead, Several Injured After Fire Truck & Ambulance Crash Responding To Emergencies

A fire truck hit a pole after crashing into an ambulance during an emergency. (Photo: Hillel Lichtenstein)BEDFORD STUYVESANT – One person is dead and several are injured after an ambulance and a fire truck crashed into each other while responding to emergencies early this morning. At around 12:45 a.

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Five-Alarm Fire Injures 12 Firefighters And Displaces 4 Families In Dyker Heights

It took over 4 hours to battle the five-alarm fire. (Photo: FDNY)DYKER HEIGHTS – A five-alarm fire ripped through three homes late Saturday night, injuring 12 firefighters and displacing families. On Saturday, September 12, just before midnight, a fire blazed through 1330 74th Street and then spread to the two

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Three-Story Building Collapses In Carroll Gardens

Photo: FDNYCARROLL GARDENS – A three-story building that was home to Body Elite Gym collapsed yesterday. There were no serious injuries. On Wednesday, July 1 at around 4:45 p.m., a building located at 348 Court Street (on the corner of Union Street) for reasons yet to be determined fell

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Deadly Fire at Marlboro Houses Claims the Life of 63-Year-Old Man

GRAVESEND — A 63-year-old man was found dead after a horrific fire at a NYCHA housing complex in Gravesend. Police responded to a report of a fire at 2304 West 8th Street at Marlboro Houses at 1:48 a.m. on January 4. While the fire was placed under control by

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Brooklyn Firefighter Arrested for Driving while Intoxicated… Again

BAY RIDGE — An off-duty firefighter was arrested last night for drinking while driving. It turns out, he had been arrested for the same thing last year. On Wednesday, December 18 at around 8 p.m., 35-year-old Carlos Vaquero, was driving his car on Ridge Boulevard near 86th Street. He was

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Fatal Fire in Flatbush Leaves One Dead, Seven Injured

FDNY Deputy Chief Michael Grogan. Photo courtesy of Loudlabs.FLATBUSH — One person is dead and seven are injured after a two-alarm fire ripped through an apartment early this cold morning. At around 4:40 a.m. on December 2, the FDNY responded to a fire on 1176 Nostrand Avenue near

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As South Slope Fire Rages, Cat Hangs By A Claw

SOUTH SLOPE – An apartment fire in South Slope damaged a building and ended with one of two cats hanging by a claw from a second floor window in a desperate attempt to escape the smoke and flames, officials said. Ban Chan hangs on to a ladder in a panic after

Borough Park

House Explosion Injures 4; City Orders Building To Be Demolished

KENSINGTON – A Kensington house that suffered a massive explosion in the basement that injured four people will have to be demolished, city officials said following the incident Monday afternoon. Firefighters battle explosion in Kensington house but keep their distance as the threat of collapse endangered rescuers. (Photo by Todd Maisel)

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High Temperatures Tax Firefighters At Two Major Fires In Sunset Park And Brownsville

SUNSET PARK/BROWNSVILLE – High temperatures made fighting a pair of two-alarm fires in two Brooklyn neighborhoods much more difficult this morning, injuring six people and leaving numerous homeless, fire officials said. Firefighter Jesus Sanchez of Ladder 176 cools down after fighting a fire on Pacific Street. (Photo by Todd Maisel)

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Bicycle Collision On 5th Ave Tuesday A Common Occurrence, Store Owner Says

5th Avenue at Prospect Place (Photo: Pamela Wong/Bklyner)PARK SLOPE – A bicyclist was hit by a truck on 5th Avenue Tuesday morning in Park Slope. The incident was caught on the surveillance camera at Milan Optique at 83 5th Avenue. At 7:44am on July 16, the video captured

Coney Island

3-Alarm Fire Damages Three Coney Island Homes

CONEY ISLAND – A three-alarm fire raced through the ceilings and roofs of three homes in Coney Island early Monday morning, injuring two firefighters, neither seriously, fire officials said. Firefighters look up into ceiling trying to find where the fire had spread in the homes on West 19th Street. (Photo: Todd

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Fire Rips Through Gravesend Home – Just Before Sale

GRAVESEND – A multi-million dollar Gravesend home that was just about to close on a sale suffered a serious fire Wednesday afternoon, causing heavy damage to the kitchen and numerous windows of the modern home, fire officials said. Firefighter with mask exits the home. Photo: Todd MaiselThe house at 1944 East

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Challenging, Stubborn Marine Park Fire Takes Hours To Put Out

MARINE PARK – A five-alarm fire erupted from a sushi restaurant today morning. Thankfully, nobody was seriously hurt. At about 6:15 a.m., the FDNY got an alarm for a fire inside the E Sushi restaurant at 2118 Flatbush Avenue. Assistant Chief Richard Howe said the “challenging” and “stubborn” fire,

Development

Developer Prepares For Demolition Of Historic S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse

RED HOOK – The Gowanus Landmarking Coalition [https://www.gowanuslandmarks.org] sent out a notice over the weekend showing photos of demolition scaffolding going up around the S.W. Bowne Grain Storehouse building at 595 Smith Street, a 133-year-old structure that was damaged by a suspicious fire last summer. Photo courtesy

Central Brooklyn

President’s Day Crime Blotter: Firefighter Chokes Girlfriend, Girlfriend Chokes Firefighter & More

RED HOOK – An FDNY firefighter was arrested yesterday for choking his girlfriend. His girlfriend was also arrested — for choking the firefighter. On Sunday, February 17 at about 11:30 a.m., 34-year-old James Samuel, who was off duty, was arrested and charged with criminal obstruction of breathing and unlawful imprisonment.

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Wednesday Crime Blotter: Fire In Seagate, Why You Should Wash Your Hands & More

SEAGATE – Two people were injured in a fire that broke out just after midnight on January 23 at 3709 Laurel Ave on the first floor of the two-story house. The fire was extinguished by about 12:44 a.m. According to the FDNY, two people were hurt but they were

East New York

Apartment Fire in East New York NYCHA High-Rise Injures Two

A fire broke out last night on one of the upper floors in East New York’s Boulevard Houses on Linden Boulevard (Photo via PropertyShark)EAST NEW YORK – Just after midnight on Tuesday, December 18, a fire broke out on the 12th floor of a NYCHA high-rise in East New

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Two Girls Killed in Fire While Visiting Their Grandfather in Bushwick

BUSHWICK – Two young girls were tragically killed during a visit to their grandfather in Bushwick when a fire broke out in the man’s apartment while they slept. The blaze broke out in Vincente Gomez’s apartment on Schaefer Street just before 11:00 pm on Saturday, December 8, officials

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Fire On The Brooklyn Bridge Leaves One Dead, 5 Injured Day Before Thanksgiving

Photo: Katie MillerBROOKLYN BRIDGE – One person is dead and five are injured after three cars crashed and erupted into flames on the Brooklyn-bound side of the Brooklyn Bridge this morning at 7:15 a.m. Photo: Katie MillerBoth sides of the bridge were forced to shut down the day before

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Wednesday Crime Blotter: Man Beaten With A Cane in Crown Heights, Police Release Peephole Video Related to Bushwick Houses Murders & More

CROWN HEIGHTS – An argument in the Utica Avenue subway station Monday morning spilled onto the street as a man assaulted another with a cane and a knife, police said. The incident occurred around 9:20 am on Monday, September 24, when the suspect struck his 23-year old victim with a

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Search Continues For Worker Buried Under Collapsed Wall

SUNSET PARK – A 47-year-old construction worker was buried yesterday afternoon when a 20-foot brick retaining wall collapsed on top of him at a construction site located at 714 39th Street between 7th & 8th Avenues in Sunset Park. > #NYPD [https://twitter.com/hashtag/NYPD?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] ESU