An overloaded power strip might have been the cause of a gigantic fire in a New York City residential building that caused 4 people to be critically injured. The fire occurred early last Friday around 12:15 am in a residential building located on 35th Ave near Rowan Street in Flushing,…
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Another high school student severely burned in chemistry experiment gone wrong
18 year old Claudette Joseph and another female student suffered severe burn injuries in a botched chemistry experiment that occurred in October 2018 at the Morris Academy for Collaborative Studies High School for Violin and Dance located in the Bronx, NYC. Our partner Jeffrey Bloom is representing Claudette and recently…
Space heater suspected to have ignited NYC fatal fire
A woman and her dog died in a residential fire in New York City at the beginning of last week. 47 year old Dawn Greig had just borrowed a space heater from her sister Denise. Greig who lived in a two-story home on Beach 95th Street in Rockaway Beach previously…
52 people killed so far in fire accidents in New York City in 2018
Two elderly women died in separate fire accidents in Queens on Monday. The first accident occurred early morning Monday around 2:10 am in the Rockaways, Queens. A fire caused by careless smoking quickly spread through the 15th floor of a high rise apartment located at 7-11 Seagirt Ave. There was…
3 dead and 9 injured after home catches fire and another 12 injured in high rise fire in NYC
A Queens Village family who was celebrating an upcoming wedding was caught in a massive fire that quickly ravaged their house killing 3 of them and injuring many others. The house located on 211th Street and 93rd Road didn’t seem to have working smoke detectors. 32 year old Harleen Maggo…
Mother and daughter die in NYC fire accident
Two women died after their home caught fire in Queens, NYC. The two women were an elderly mother and her daughter living on Wheatley Street in Far Rockaway. The two women had been living in the house for 20 years. The mother was around eighty years old. Her daughter was…
2 Dead and 9 Injured in Bronx Fire
Two people died and 9 were injured in a fire accident in New York City. The fire started on the first floor of a building located on Hoffman Street near 87th Street in Belmont, Bronx around 1:30 am on Monday morning. After the fire broke out in one of the…
Close the door to prevent deaths and injuries in fire accidents!
After 13 people died and 4 were critically injured in a fire accident in New York City, the FDNY reminds New Yorkers that a simple move can save lives. If you are fleeing a room on fire, shut the door behind you! In apartment buildings this simple action can prevent…
2 dead and 1 injured in two NYC residential fire accidents
A 12 year old boy died in a fire accident in Queens, NYC. Thomas Curly was sleeping in his bedroom Sunday around 3:00 am when a fire erupted in the apartment he was living in with his family on Ocean Promenade near Beach 123rd Street in Rockaway Park. Thomas was…
25 firefighters injured in 6-alarm fire in Manhattan
25 firefighters were injured in a fire in New York. 23 of them had to be hospitalized and 2 of them were treated at the scene of the accident according to AM New York. No civilians were injured. The fire started in the lower level of a large Tribeca commercial and…