Fires Archives

Here’s What Caused the Recent Fatal Fire on the Upper East Side

Ethan Harfenist December 8, 2024 NYPD + FDNY 2 Comments

Last week, FDNY officials took to social media to reveal what ignited the fire that left one person dead and several others injured earlier this Read More...

UES Building Fire Leads to One Death, Multiple Injuries

Ethan Harfenist December 3, 2024 NYPD + FDNY 1 Comment

A three-alarm fire blazed through a residential building on the Upper East Side Monday evening, leading to multiple injuries and one death. Read More...

Fire Spreads at $27.5 Million Mansion

Mike Mishkin October 30, 2024 NYPD + FDNY 1 Comment

A fire broke out this morning in the basement of an Upper East Side mansion which sold in 2022 for $27.5 million. Read More...

Fire on 96th and Madison Injures Four

Mike Mishkin December 1, 2023 NYPD + FDNY 1 Comment

A Thursday afternoon fire broke out on the fifth floor of a six-story apartment building at 1356 Madison Avenue, between 95th and 96th streets. Read More...

Early Morning Hospital Fire Injures Six

Mike Mishkin July 7, 2023 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

An electrical fire broke out in the basement of Mount Sinai Hospital at just before 1:00 a.m. on Friday morning, the FDNY reported. Read More...

Scaffolding Fire Spreads Through Lexington Avenue Building

Mike Mishkin April 13, 2023 NYPD + FDNY 1 Comment

The FDNY was called to the scene of a scaffolding fire which quickly spread to the roof of an Upper East Side building late Wednesday. Read More...

Upper East Side Woman Loses Everything In Fire; Community Rallies, Helps Her Rebuild

Spencer Cain April 2, 2023 Odds and Ends No Comments

On Monday, February 27, a freak electrical fire ripped through an Upper East Side apartment on 83rd and Third Avenue, displacing its sole inhabitant, Jenna Read More...

East 83rd Street Building Catches Fire

Mike Mishkin February 27, 2023 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

A fire broke out on Monday afternoon at 214 East 83rd Street between Second and Third avenues, an early 1900s five-story rental building with 20 Read More...

An Early Morning Fire at Weill Cornell Medical Center

Mike Mishkin July 26, 2022 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

At just past 5 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the FDNY responded to a fire on the fifth floor of 546 East 68th Street at New Read More...

Midnight Fire at Tony’s Di Napoli

Mike Mishkin May 8, 2022 NYPD + FDNY No Comments

Twelve units and sixty firefighters were called to the scene of a fire at 1081 Third Avenue (at 64th Street) at midnight on Saturday, May 7. Read More...

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