Chief Woods said that there was brush burning outside the warehouse, but it was not yet known if that was the initial cause. Oregon tops Week 2 College Football Playoff rankings and Georgia drops ...

between 62nd Avenue and 62nd Road, which housed Uzbeki restaurant Taste of Samarkand, according to FDNY. The eatery was closed when firefighters responded to the fire just before 11 a.m., the ...

Asiedu said. The FDNY believes their awareness campaign is one reason the number of New Yorkers killed by lithium-ion battery fires is down to five this year, compared to 14 by this time in 2023.

Tucker said in a statement. Between Nov. 1 and Nov. 14, the FDNY responded to 271 brush fires citywide — a record for a two-week period, officials said. This is a sharp increase compared to the ...

The FDNY battled two fires in Brooklyn Friday afternoon just hours apart. Fire officials say the first fire broke out in a Midwood home at around noon. Just a few hours later, a second fire broke ...

Since 2019, there have been 900 lithium-ion battery fires and 33 deaths, and members of the FDNY have taken five trips to Washington to push for change. "The missing piece was the federal ...

An FDNY fire truck was involved in a crash that left a trail of destruction through East Harlem on Thanksgiving night – including a passenger vehicle smashed up, a row of Citi Bikes on the ...

“We had a heavy body of fire, originally on the fifth and sixth floor,” FDNY Assistant Chief Thomas Currao told reporters at the scene. The fire then spread to the fourth floor, and ...