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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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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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Fire Causes Traffic Backup On Cortelyou Road

Cortelyou Road & East 17th Street, Friday April 14. (Photo by Dina Rabiner/BKLYNER)This afternoon, a kitchen fire tore through an apartment on East 18th Street and Cortelyou Road, closing down the busy thoroughfare. The fire sparked just after 2pm on Friday, April 14, at 380 East 18th Street, wrapping

News

Fun City Bowl Erupts In Bloody Brawl Between Cops And Firefighters [Video]

Who knew there was such bad blood between police and firefighters? The NYPD and FDNY’s annual Fun City Bowl [/nypd-vs-fdny-fun-city-bowl-coming-to-mcu-park/] charity game, held Sunday at MCU Park, turned into a bloody brawl on the field, NBC New York reports [http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/FDNY-NYPD-Bloody-Brawl-Charity-Football-Game-Coney-Island-380587831.html] . Footage taken

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Sheepshead Bay Native Appointed To Lead Charity For Families Of Fallen First Responders

Lauren Profeta. (Photo: Answer the Call)Sheepshead Bay native Lauren Profeta understands the daily perils faced by New York City’s first responders. Two of her three brothers are firefighters. The other is a police captain. Profeta was promoted this week to Director of Development for Answer the Call – The

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2-Year-Old Boy In Critical Condition After Fire In Marine Park Home

A 2-year-old was sent to the hospital in critical condition after a fire broke out in a Marine Park home. (Photo: Mike Wright [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206443108173735&set=oa.10153613325804038&type=1&theater] / MIDWOOD – FLATBUSH NEWS BLOG)A 2-year-old boy was rushed to Beth Israel Hospital

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Giant Tree Falls Across Dorchester Road, Near E. 18th Street, Thursday Night

Photo by David GurzynskiA giant tree cracked at the base and fell at 1801 Dorchester Road, at the corner of 18th Street, a little after 9:30pm Thursday night, the FDNY and neighbors told us. Fortunately, no one was hurt in the accident, according to the FDNY, but one parked

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Woman Sues After Husband Dies In Restroom Of 86th Street McDonald’s

McDonald’s located 2411 86th Street, in which the incident occurred. (Source: Google Maps)A local woman filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s after her husband died in a restroom at their 86th Street and 24th Avenue location. Anthony Denicola, a 67-year-old grandfather, had a heart attack in the restroom

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Bensonhurst Dental Care Will Provide Free Services To Police, Firefighters & Vets This Sunday

On Sunday, November 23, from 10am-6pm, the folks at Bensonhurst Dental Care [http://bensonhurstdentalcare.com] (1872 80th St) will be providing dental services free of charge to New York City’s police, firefighters, EMTs, military personnel, and their families. “We have a unique opportunity to show our men and women

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UPDATE: 14 Injured In Borough Park Blaze

Photo courtesy of Eddie F.Twelve firefighters suffered minor injuries in their effort to put down the two-alarm fire that consumed a three-story building located at 4315 18th Avenue yesterday. ABC is reporting [http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9244216] that the injured firefighters

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Fire Rips Through 11th Avenue Storefronts

Source: NYC Fire Wire via FacebookMany of these 11th Avenue businesses were damaged by the late-night fire. (Source: Google Maps)A fast-spreading fire ripped through seven storefronts just before midnight on Monday, on 11th Avenue and 63rd Street in Dyker Heights. The blaze sent several firefighters to the emergency room.

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FDNY’s Local Marine Unit To Rebuild Headquarters After Being Wiped Out By Sandy

The FDNY’s Marine 3 headquarters in 2009. (Source: Vlad Iorsh/Flickr)The fire eaters of the FDNY’s local marine unit will have to rebuild their summer headquarters – or find themselves homeless, thanks to Superstorm Sandy. The Marine 3 summer vessel. (Source: FDNY)The unit – FDNY Marine 3 – operates

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5 Alarm Cookoff Offers Local Sheepshead Firefighter A Chance To Shine

John Sierp (Source: worldcares.org)There is no doubt that the final for this year’s fourth annual 5 Alarm Cookoff, a firefighter cook contest sponsored by the New York Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/5-alarm-cookoff-brooklyn-contest-veteran-roll-greek-lamb-meatball-dish-article-1.1190495] , will not disappoint foodies, especially if local Sheepshead Bay firefighter

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UPDATE: Wrong-Way Driver Causes Major Morning Crash Near Bay Parkway Exit

The cause of a multi-vehicle accident on the eastbound lane of the Belt Parkway this morning [/breaking-belt-parkway-lanes-closed-due-to-a-major-crash-near-bay-parkway-exit/] has been revelead. Henry Brimsley was driving in an eastbound lane and made a careless U-turn after spotting a parked police car on the shoulder. He started driving against traffic, the wrong-way, to

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Photos: Car Fire On East 19th Street, Avenue U

An On Time Car Service van burst into flames this morning in front of the company’s headquarters at 2111 East 19th Street, spurring firefighters to rush to the scene and extinguish the flames. The incident occurred at approximately 10:40 a.m., and Sheepshead Bites tipster nolastname was on