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88 Prospect Park West (Image via Google Maps)NYC Council Member Brad Lander (39th District) posted a message to his Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/brad.lander.7] yesterday urging Brooklynites to help Park Slope families displaced by a fire last Saturday (March 4) evening. “This past weekend, a
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(Photo by Diana Saez Rivera)Less than an hour ago, a fire sparked in the basement of a Sheepshead Bay home, said FDNY. The blaze at 2701 Avenue W and East 27th Street sent dozens of firefighters and emergency medical workers rushing to the street corner at around 9am, Friday
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February 19, 2017 (Photo submitted by reader)Last night, firefighters stamped out a house fire on the border of Ditmas Park and Kensington. The all-hands fire started on the top floor of a residential building at 735 Coney island Avenue near Cortelyou Road, around 5:30pm on Sunday, February 19,
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625 39th Street, November 2016. (Photo via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/place/625+39th+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11232/@40.6489957,-74.0000859,3a,37.5y,335.87h,90.14t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbN1VLisnbRHoed4aCH8n3Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c25ac609b511f3:0x6cb92fbda52df2ae!8m2!3d40.6496171!4d-74.0007421] )A
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175 Ocean Parkway fire on January 3. (Photo by neighbor Liam Brown)[Update 1/16 3pm: Neighbors launched a GoFundMe page for the victims of this fire. Donate here [https://www.gofundme.com/fund175/].] A roaring blaze tore through a century-old apartment building on Ocean Parkway in Kensington last night,
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Photo via NYC Fire Wire/Facebook.A fire burned through the basement and into the first floor of a house on Avenue X last night at around 9:15pm, according to the FDNY. No one was hurt in the fire, which took place at 450 Avenue X between Ocean Parkway
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(Photo by David Mark Erickson)Sixty firefighters battled a blaze at a Foster Avenue home this morning during commuting hours.The blaze broke out at 1904 Foster at East 19th Street around 7:15am on Wednesday, December 14, according to an eyewitness. Firefighters had the fire under control just before
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A car after crashing into D II Deals & Discounts on Monday, December 12. (Photo by Jeff Bush)A livery cab careened into a discount store Monday night, smashing a plate glass window before coming to a stop during the height of rush hour at one of Park Slope’s
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Engine 279 and Ladder 131, located at 252 Lorraine Street (at Smith Street). (Photo: Google Maps)A firefighter has been arrested and charged with selling narcotics in front of his Red Hook firehouse and near a private Brooklyn high school. Daniel Torres, 33, a New York City firefighter with Engine
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Joe Miccio in his firefighting days. Photo via Butler Associates PR.“The thing about a pawn is that they’re brave. They may be small, but they never run away. They only move forward,” said Joe Miccio. Miccio is a Sheepshead Bay native, a retired firefighter and police officer, and
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Photo via Google Maps.The FDNY has ruffled the feathers on some firefighters by banning political paraphernalia from the firehouses and trucks after the Madison Engine 276 displayed a Donald Trump mask on the front of a truck. A memo sent out across the department asked firefighters to “remain out
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Photo by Sheepshead BitesA Sheepshead Bay woman who her neighbors said suffered from depression ended her own life by jumping from the top of her apartment building, landing on top of the parking garage below, according to police. The tragic suicide took place at a seven-story apartment building on Nostrand