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Two NYC buses collide sending 27 people to hospital, dozens more being evaluated, officials say
A major collision between two buses in Manhattan left dozens of passengers injured, 18 of them rushed to area hospitals Thursday night.
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NYC Shutters Additional Parking Garages in Wake of Deadly Manhattan Collapse
Citywide safety inspections conducted in the wake of last week’s deadly parking garage collapse in lower Manhattan have resulted in orders to partially vacate the structures of at least four other sites. The Department of Buildings dispatched teams to conduct sweeps of parking facilities in hopes of preventing another collapse like the one on April 18. A lone parking manager…
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7-Year-Old and Teen Die in Astoria Fire, Others Jump Out 2nd Story Window
A family is grieving the loss of a 7-year-old boy and a teenager who were killed in a fire at a home in Queens that was sparked by an e-bike’s lithium ion battery, investigators said. The call about the fire at the home on 46th Street in Astoria, with reports of people trapped, came in shortly after 2 p.m....
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Construction Worker Dies After Lower Manhattan Wall Collapse; 3 Others Hurt
One person has died and three others were injured following a wall collapse in Lower Manhattan Tuesday, the FDNY said. According to the FDNY, the back wall of a three-story building under demolition collapsed around 1 p.m. near Lafayette and Canal streets in SoHo. The collapse trapped four workers, who were freed by firefighters using basic tools and their bare…
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‘Nothing Left' of NYC Supermarket After Scooter Battery Goes Up in Flames: FDNY
Fire investigators are blaming a lithium-ion battery for sparking a massive 5-alarm inferno that tore through a supermarket in the Bronx. The fire took off around 10: 40 a.m., triggering a response from approximately 200 firefighters to the Concourse Food Plaza on Sunday. Huge plumes of thick smoke filled the sky, visible from miles away. Mayor Eric Adams and top…
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More Than a Dozen Kids Hurt After E-Bike Battery Sparks Fire at NYC Daycare Center
A lithium-ion battery from an e-bike sparked the devastating fire at a Queens daycare center that hurt more than a dozen kids, one of them critically, officials say, marking the latest in a series of blazes linked to such units. The fire broke out in the middle of Wednesday afternoon in the basement of what appeared to be a duplex…