Alexis Schroeder By Elaine Biller, Greater NY Volunteer   On Sept. 17, 2014 a massive 3-alarm fire raged through a Second Avenue apartm...

After discovering flames shooting from a compactor room next to their lower Manhattan apartment on a Sunday night, Nellie Quiles and her ...

Although Imeh Cuthbertson and her husband had had problems with the power in their Bronx apartment for some time (for example, if their be...

Earlier this week, Rafael Cotto and his family lost their  home in the Bronx after a powerful fire spread from a nearby house. While Ra...

By Dorothy He For Kaydian Grennan of Far Rockaway, it was a typical morning at her uncle’s two-story house. She and her four young chi...

By Dorothy He Ronald Bethea of the Bronx awoke one morning to a dark apartment. Thinking his lights might not be working, he went to che...

Deonca Dawkins’ first indication that something was wrong in her fourth floor Brooklyn apartment was when her bathroom light wouldn’t turn...

by Nadine Rose Yamilka Alvarez and her family barely escaped from a five-alarm fire in the Bronx that destroyed their home. Alvarez live...

Jaimie Sanita and Emily Viemeister were awakened around 4 am on a steamy night in July by frantic knocking by a neighbor: there was a fire...

Alicia Rios, her husband, Miguel Ortiz, and their two daughters, Diana Rios, 16 and Felicia Rios, 14, were recently burned out of their Br...

Friends and neighbors Cristina Morales (l) and Miguelina Jaquez (r) Miguelina Jaquez and Cristina Morales, neighbors and friends for ...

Disbelief … shock … sadness. Sandra Simpson felt all these emotions while watching her basement become engulfed in flames on Labor Day ...

According to the National Weather Service, about 25 million lightning flashes occur each year in the United States, each one potentially d...