Jul. 31, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell A resident was injured during a two-alarm fire in a high-rise building in Far Rockaway Wednesday morning. The fire broke out at around 9 a.m. at 8000 Shorefront Pkwy. at the Dayton Towers and left one person with serious injuries. Firefighters arrived on the scene just after 9:10…
Jul. 30, 2024 By Bill Parry A dozen Jamaica homes were impacted by a three-alarm fire that tore through several residential buildings on Liberty Avenue at 168th Place early Sunday morning. The FDNY received a call just before 3 a.m. on July 28 of a blaze at 168-20 Liberty Ave. Units from the 13th Division…
Jul. 28, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell Fire marshals in Queens are investigating the cause and origin of a three-alarm fire on Sunday morning that left five residents and three firefighters injured. Fire Department sources said the blaze ignited at 168-20 Liberty Ave. in Jamaica just before 3 a.m. on July 28 and spread to…
Jul. 24, 2024 By Bill Parry Terminal 8 at JFK International Airport has reopened after the FDNY extinguished a fire inside the building on Wednesday morning. The fire broke out in an escalator in Concourse C just before 7 a.m. on July 24 and the FDNY and Port Authority Police Department responded to the…
Jul. 23, 2024 By Bill Parry and Lloyd Mitchell The FDNY battled a blaze that broke out on the top floor of a 3-story apartment building in Ozone Park on Monday night. The call was received just before 9 p.m. and units from the 39th Battalion arrived at 105-10 77th St. minutes later to…
Jul. 8, 2024 By Bill Parry and Lloyd Mitchell
FDNY fire marshals are working to determine the cause of a fire that gutted a home in Ozone Park last week.
July 2, 2024 By Bill Parry A breakthrough was reached just days after tenants of a Sunnyside apartment complex filed a lawsuit against their building’s landlord stemming from their displacement following a 5-alarm fire in December. Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and A&E Real Estate, the landlord, announced a plan Monday to provide 22 tenants… Read more »
June 11, 2024 By Bill Parry Council Member Julie Won and Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez on Saturday rallied with their constituents, who were displaced by a massive five-alarm fire at their Sunnyside apartment complex just days before Christmas, to call on A&E Real Estate Holdings to extend tenants’ temporary leases. Families and individuals from at least… Read more »
Jun. 3, 2024 By Bill Parry
A firefighter and a civilian were injured while the FDNY battled a massive three-alarm fire in Richmond Hill on Sunday morning. Just before 7 a.m., the FDNY received a call about a blaze that broke out in the rear of a laundromat located at 101-12 108th St. and rapidly spread to several adjoining buildings.
May. 15, 2024 By Bill Parry
One firefighter was injured while battling a house fire on a quiet residential street near Crocheron Park in Bayside on Sunday afternoon.