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Photo by Karen D.A fire broke out at approximately 11:30 a.m., and at least one person was carried out of the 1203 Avenue Y building by EMS, reports neighbor Karen D. The call came over the police scanners shortly after 11:30. By 11:50 a.m.
4740 bedford ave
Photo: Erica ShermanA fire broke out yesterday afternoon at 4740 Bedford Avenue, and a neighbor said FDNY told her it might have been from a loose wire in the powerless home. Lindsay H. writes: > One of the homes on Bedford btwn Voorhies and Shore Pkwy went on fire earlier
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After our report yesterday about a thick, black cloud of smoke billowing along Avenue U [/breaking-thick-smoke-envelops-avenue-u-near-bedford-ave/], near Bedford Avenue, we received the above photo from reader Ariela K. The photo clearly shows that the smoke was coming from a manhole, further suggesting some sort of utility-related malfunction as we speculated
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Firefighters squelched a fire in a storage area behind Bally’s Total Fitness Gym (1720 Sheepshead Bay Road), adjacent to the Voorhies Avenue municipal parking lot this morning. The fire broke out shortly before 10:00 a.m. and was quickly put out by Ladder 169. A plastic storage shed
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Photo by nolastnameA massive fire broke out at 1716 West 6th Street in Gravesend early this morning, hospitalizing one and taking more than 150 firefighters several hours to quell. Bensonhurst Bean is following the story. [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2012/03/gravesend-fire-4-alarm-west-6th-st/]
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Source: Wikimedia CommonsOnce upon a time, long before Thor Equities, the Coney Island Cyclone, and even before Rabbi Abraham Abraham [/brooklyn-mourns-the-loss-of-rabbi-abraham-abraham/] came into the world, there was Dreamland [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamland_(amusement_park)], an aptly-named Coney Island amusement park, which served as one of the area’s
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Damage didn’t appear to be too bad to the exterior of the Winsor McCay “Hell House” (1811 Voorhies Avenue), and the structure seems salvageable. The second floor windows were boarded up along the front. On the side, only one window – the forward-most one – was boarded. All others were intact,