16 year old Oscar Hernandez suffered severe personal injury and his mother and sister died in the Harlem gas explosion that destroyed a building on E. 116th street in Harlem, NYC on March 12th this year. The young man spent 11 days in a coma and when he came out…
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One man died and 14 other people suffered serious personal injury in a huge fire that destroyed apartments on Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn, NYC, early this morning
Picture by NY Scanner A young man is dead and 14 other people are injured including several of them in critical condition after a massive fire destroyed apartments in a three-story building on Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn, NYC early this morning. The fire broke out above the stores and destroyed…
Two people injured after an explosion caused a manhole to fly and strike a taxi
An NYC taxi driver and his passenger suffered personal injury after an explosion caused a manhole to fly in the air and strike the taxi on Lexington near 44th street in Manhattan early Monday morning. The impact damaged the doors and the windshield of the taxi. A good Samaritan pulled…
The parents are suing the City of New York for $27 million on behalf of their 16 year old son who was severely burned during a botched chemistry experiment at Beacon High School
Our partner, New York Personal Injury Attorney Jeff Bloom is representing the parents of the teenager who sustained second and third degrees burns from an explosion and resulting fire caused by a Rainbow Experiment conducted in a chemistry lab by his teacher Anna Poole (for more info see our previous…
An EMS crew prevented a major Carbon Monoxide accident in the Bronx, NYC
4 people suffering minor personal injuries were hospitalized and 10 other residents as well as a crew of firefighters responding to a sick person were evacuated from a Bronx Building in which Carbon Monoxide was building up. The firefighters were responding to a call for a cardiac arrest which turned…
A young man suffered severe burn injuries after he inadvertently created an explosion and set himself on fire in a Brooklyn basement
A young man from Brooklyn using acetone and coconut oil while drying tobacco leaves to prepare for the opening of a Hookah bar set himself on fire after the fumes from the chemicals ignited with the pilot light of the enclosed basement’s water heater and caused an explosion. The 22…
Two young boys died and a good Samaritan trying to save them was severely injured in a Queens fire
A 6 year old boy and his 11 year old brothers died yesterday after they got trapped in a fire that erupted in a house in Queens, NYC. A man who tried to save them suffered severe injury after he was forced to jump out of a second floor window…
Man dies in Brooklyn fire accident
A 61 year old man died early this morning after a fire engulfed his apartment on Herkimer St. in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY. The fireman tried to ressucitate the man after they pulled him out of the fire but he died at the hospital. The cause of the fire is…
A woman died and two firefighters suffered injury in a fire in Queens, NYC
A 40 year old woman died from third degree burns and cardiac arrest after a fire ravaged her apartment on the sixth floor of a Jackson Heights building in Queens, NYC early Saturday. Two firefighters were also injured and hospitalized but their lives are not in danger. The investigation is…
Deadly house explosion in Port Washington, NY
One person was killed in a massive house explosion that happened Tuesday night at 10 Prospect Ave in Port Washington, Long Island,NY. According to CBS New York, one home was completely destroyed and 8 cars were burned. Nearby homes were evacuated and gas was shut down.