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Community members are coming together to help the victims of a fire at a four-story apartment building in Yonkers. The fire started just before 2 a.m. Wednesday when a woman living in a second-floor apartment at 951 McLean Ave. fell asleep while smoking a cigarette.
The fire started just before 2 a.m. when a woman living in a second-floor apartment at 951 McLean Ave. fell asleep while smoking a cigarette. Yonkers Fire Department Deputy Chief Kevin Ford says the cigarette fell into the cushions and ignited the couch, which caught fire.
The fire started just before 2 a.m. when a woman living in a second-floor apartment at 951 McLean Ave. fell asleep while smoking a cigarette. Yonkers Fire Department Deputy Chief Kevin Ford says the cigarette fell into the cushions and ignited the couch, which caught fire.
Yonkers firefighters rescued at least seven residents who were trapped on the floor above an apartment building fire early Wednesday. YONKERS, N.Y. -- A Yonkers apartment fire that injured several residents and 11 firefighters was started by a second-floor resident falling asleep with a cigarette, causing his couch cushions to ignite.
... may have come in through a rear entrance, an open window, or across the attached roof from another building. The Yonkers Fire Department said the flames began at an overloaded extension cord. Although six people were rescued, there were no serious ...
Some of the more than 90 displaced tenants of a Yonkers apartment complex that was damaged during a fire on Monday, returned home to find their apartments had been broken in to, according to News 12. The tenants were given the okay to enter their destroyed apartments at 28 Carlyle Ave., by the fire department to try and salvage items. One tenant told News 12 she had hundreds of dollars stolen along with an Xbox.
... While acting Fire Commissioner Ernie Richardson called the post "out of character" for Lanier, officials with the Yonkers PBA and Westchester Blacks in Law Enforcement expressed anger over the incident, according to News 12, which reported that ...
Aspasia M. Kiapos, 90, a Yonkers, NY native and her husband Theodore J. Kiapos, 91, were asleep in their bed when fire consumed their Sun Valley, CA home. "They passed in body together, but live on in spirit," said granddaughter Sophia Kiapos on a memorial GoFundMe page.
