Officially, street pigeons are not vermin, like rats, another species of barefoot city dweller, with which they are often ...

A man fell to his death after a rescue ladder reportedly retracted as he was evacuating from an apartment building on fire in ...

A malfunctioning fire department ladder sent a 53-year-old Brooklyn man tumbling to his death during a caught-on-video Monday morning mishap.

A devastating fire in Brooklyn took the life of 53-year-old Pakistani immigrant Ashiq Hussain, who plunged to his death when ...

HE IS A 23 YEAR VETERAN FIREFIGHTER. LIEUTENANT MARK BOWER WAS ON DUTY CLIMBING AN AERIAL LADDER, HELPING TO PUT OUT A FIRE MONDAY AFTERNOON ALONG THE ROOF OF A BUILDING ON SARATOGA STREET NEAR ...

Firefighters rescued several people using ladders after a fire in an apartment stairwell early this morning. The fire broke out just before 5 a.m. Thursday at a garden apartment complex along ...

Guests used furniture as an "improvised ladder" to try to escape after the Bayesian superyacht capsized last year, a new safety report has said. The interim report by the Marine Accident ...

Crews managed to quickly put the fire out and evacuate the building. Three people were hurt, and one died. His roommate, Muhammad Rashid, said the man who died was trying to come down the ladder ...

CUMBERLAND — No injuries were reported late Tuesday when fire broke out in a two-story residence at 11507 West Wilson Road northeast in Flintstone, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal's ...