The Year Ends with a String of Bronx Fires Killing Three People
2023 unfortunately ended with several fires that tragically killed three people. Two fires just three blocks apart in the Bronx occurred on Saturday, December 30. The first blaze broke out on the second floor of a five-story apartment building on Elder Avenue near Westchester Avenue in Soundview around 8:15 p.m. The second-alarm fire killed one Read More »
Three-Alarm Fire in Gowanus, Brooklyn Displaces Several Families
On Thursday morning, more than 140 firefighters from the FDNY responded to a three-alarm blaze that destroyed a Brooklyn residential building. Several families are displaced due to the fire, which ignited on the second floor of a 100-year-old four-story building on 9th Street near 3rd Avenue in Gowanus. The fire spread to the upper Read More »
Extensive Fire in Sunnyside, Queens Apartment Building Injures at Least 14, Displaces 68 Families
On Wednesday, December 20, 2023, around noon, a massive fire broke out at a six-story Queens apartment building. More than 14 people were injured, and an estimated 68 families (160 people) are without a home. The 108-unit building is located on 47 th Avenue in Sunnyside. The fire in the E-shaped building broke out on Read More »
Early-Morning Massive Fire in Brooklyn Destroys Multi-Family Property, Injures Five Residents
A raging fire destroyed two homes in the Brooklyn neighborhood overnight, injuring several people who were sleeping when the flames engulfed their building in the middle of the night. At least five individuals were injured, mainly due to smoke inhalation, after their Williamsburg building on Kingsland Avenue caught fire around 4 a.m. The fire was Read More »
Lithium-Ion Battery Fire in Bronx High-Rise Leaves One Dead, Nine Injured
Last night, December 3, after 7:00 pm, 28 units with 78 firefighters responded to a fire at a high-rise New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) apartment building at 1440 Bronx River Avenue. The fire caused by a lithium-ion battery claimed one person’s life and injured at least nine people. According to the FDNY, the origin Read More »
Harlem Apartment Fire Kills Two
In what is becoming an alarming trend for the Five Boroughs of New York City, another fire has taken the life of an innocent victim, this time during the Thanksgiving holiday when families gather for food and fellowship. Near midnight on the night of November 24, an inferno engulfed a multi-story brownstone located at 107 Read More »
A Guide to Navigating Fire Injury Claims
Fire is a living, breathing, savage beast, one that consumes without thought or compassion. House and apartment fires are some of the major causes of property damage, wrongful death, and life-long injury disability in the world. In New York City, fires in residential developments have caused injuries, death, and property loss each year. What happens Read More »
Crown Heights Lithium Fire in Brooklyn
Family members spanning three generations perished in a deadly fire caused by exploding lithium-ion batteries in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn. In the early hours of Sunday, November 14, 2023, batteries commonly used in electric food-delivery scooters sparked a row house blaze that killed Albertha West, the matriarch of a large family. The fire Read More »
$12 Million Awarded for Bronx Fire Victims
On March 5, 2018, a devastating apartment fire changed the lives of Bronx residents forever. Finally, the fire victims and their families have been successful in receiving financial compensation for their injuries, financial losses, and lost loved ones. With Ronemus & Vilensky representing ten of the apartment residents – including two tenants who lost their Read More »
Phases of Burn Injury
Phases of Burn Injury One of the primary causes of severe burns often occurs during a major fire in an apartment complex that is unprepared for or unsafe in an emergency evacuation. Often tenants with no warning of this imminent danger are trapped by flames or smoke and cannot easily access escape routes to safety, Read More »
