Dec. 20, 2024 By Bill Parry The FDNY battled a two-alarm blaze at a restaurant in Rockaway Beach that stirred up some ghosts for residents of the neighborhood. The fire broke out just after 7 p.m. at the Smoke and Barrel BBQ at 97-20 Rockway Beach Blvd., in the same location as the old…
Dec. 1, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell A firefighter in Queens suffered minor injuries while battling a fire at a vacant building early on Sunday morning. Fire Department sources said the blaze broke out just before 5:05 a.m. on Dec. 1 inside a vacant home at 117-36 Smith St. in South Jamaica. The first responding…
Nov. 22, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell The FDNY honored Chaplain John E. Delendick with a World Trade Center plaque dedication at Engine Company 257, Tower Ladder 170, and Battalion 58 in Canarsie on Friday, the first anniversary of his line-of-duty death. Delendick, who joined the FDNY in 1996, died on Nov. 22, 2023, after…
Nov. 19, 2024 By Bill Parry A Queens Village man was killed after he became trapped in his bedroom after a fire swept through a home at 218-59 110th Ave. on Sunday afternoon. The FDNY received 911 calls just after 3:30 p.m. after the blaze broke out in the attic of the 2.5-story wood…
Nov. 17, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki The Fire Department (FDNY) has set up a specialized task force to battle and prevent NYC wildfires, scores of which have broken out across the five boroughs this month due to the Big Apple’s ongoing drought. New York City has not seen substantial rainfall since September, and the…
Nov. 14, 2024 By Bill Parry and Lloyd Mitchell The FDNY battled an intense three-alarm apartment building fire at the Greenwood Arms complex in Howard Beach on Thursday morning. The first calls were received at around 11:20 a.m. after a fire broke out on the fourth floor of a six-story building at 86-10 151st…
Nov. 10, 2024 By Dean Moses Several passengers on board a Queens bus were injured when the driver suffered a medical episode and lost control of the vehicle, which crashed into a number of parked vehicles, authorities said. Police said the Q32 local bus was traveling eastbound along Queens Boulevard near 46th Street in…
Nov. 10, 2024 By Dean Moses An FDNY firefighter was arrested in Queens over the weekend for allegedly choking his wife in front of his child, sources familiar with the incident reported. According to police sources, 47-year-old firefighter Joseph Johnson was arrested in the confines of the 105th Precinct at around 3:20 p.m. on…
Nov. 5, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD did not wait for the FDNY fire marshals to determine the cause of a fatal fire in a detached garage in Jamaica on Saturday morning before deeming the deaths of two civilians as homicides on Monday. Investigators suspected foul play and that the fire was set…
Nov. 3, 2024 By Dean Moses They came, they saw, they conquered the five boroughs. Some 50,000 participants pushed themselves to the limit at the TCS New York City Marathon Sunday — racing from the foot of the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge on Staten Island and through the five boroughs to Central Park. But every moment…