A total of about 60 firefighters and EMS personnel rushed to the scene around 3:11 p.m. at Grand Concourse and McClellan St., where flames broke out in a third-floor apartment.

The FDNY says they received a report of a fire on the third floor of a six-story building at 1166 Grand Concourse off ...

Witnesses reported hearing explosions and seeing smoke rising from a manhole in the New York metropolitan area on Tuesday,.

A fire inside the basement of an East Flatbush residence left one person hurt on Tuesday, according to authorities. Crews responded to the scene on East 32nd St. near Tilden Avenue. A ladder was ...

Dozens of people were forced to evacuate just before 8:30 a.m. Monday after flames erupted at 1420 Clay Ave on the top floor ...

Police say a person injured after falling from a Wellington balcony was “fleeing to safety” after a shotgun was fire in an apartment building.

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Tourists and residents in Jamaica were surveying the damage caused by Hurricane Melissa, after it made landfall on the island ...