that a fire on the 29th floor of a high rise in East Harlem, near Central Park, has left 12 people hurt, including three who are fighting for their lives, fire officials said. Continue reading
ABC reports that first responders rescued three people after a fire erupted inside a public housing apartment building in East Harlem Monday afternoon.Continue reading
NY Post reports that residents of the Harlem building where Edward Norton and Bruce Willis were shooting a movie before it went up in flames are suing the landlord and the film company for $5 million claiming their “negligence” caused the blaze that took a firefighter’s life.Continue reading
Patch reports that three people were sent to the hospital Tuesday afternoon after a car crashed into scaffolding on an East Harlem street, officials said.Continue reading
The NY Post reports that opportunistic scavengers have stolen more than $35,000 in cash, jewelry and clothes left behind by evacuees of Thursday’s deadly Harlem fire, according to police sources.Continue reading
A fire broke out early Saturday morning in an East Harlem building that left eight people injured and displaced four families, according to the FDNY.Continue reading
A New York firefighter was killed on Thursday night in a blaze at a building in Harlem that was being used as a set for Motherless Brooklyn, a film adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel, directed by Edward Norton said a source.Continue reading
Two firefighters, one with just a few months on the job, pulled a critically injured man from a burning Washington Heights apartment building Sunday night, an FDNY spokesman said.Continue reading
NY Daily News reports that a fire in a Washington Heights apartment building left one person critically injured Sunday night, FDNY officials said.Continue reading
Notify NYC reports that emergency personnel are on the scene of a five-alarm fire located at Riverside Drive and West 156th Street in Manhattan. Continue reading
NY Daily News reports that a 4-year-old awoke and screamed “Fire!” — a cry in the night that may have made the difference between life and death for an East Harlem family.Continue reading
Patch reports that sixteen people were injured, one critically, after an emotionally disturbed woman set fire to her Harlem apartment during a standoff with police, police and fire officials said.Continue reading
An elderly woman is dead and her husband is fighting for his life after a fire in Harlem. Around 7:30 p.m. Monday, police responded to 70 La Salle St., where an apartment on the 15th floor was on fire.Continue reading