FIres & Accidents
Wayne Center Honors Former Navy Member & EMT
UPDATE Norwood: Second Ceiling Collapse reported on Dekalb Avenue
For the second time in two months, firefighters were called to a second Dekalb Avenue building in Norwood for a report of a ceiling collapse. In the latest incident, Jumratan Inshanali, a 33-year resident of 3561 Dekalb Avenue, said she was sitting in her bedroom with her home health aide on Monday, March 10, when water started to pour out of her ceiling and into her first-floor apartment.
BP Gibson & Friends of Firefighters: Firefighters in Critical Need of Mental Health Counseling
Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson and Nancy Carbone, executive director of Friends of Firefighters, “an organization that provides counseling to New York’s Bravest,” recently wrote an op-ed in The Bronx Times in which they talked about a critical need for available mental health counseling for NYC firefighters.
UPDATE Hazmat Response Needed on Bainbridge Ave as 2025 Declared Fire Prevention Year
Allerton: School Bus Fire Results in No Injuries
Neighborhood Notes: Fordham Plaza Vendors Sought, Apply for Capital Funding, Register for Elections & More!
Bedford Park: Brush Fire Extinguished on Jerome Avenue
Daycare Operator Grei Mendez Gets 45 Years for her Part in Fentanyl-Related Death of Nicholas Dominici
Grei Mendez, 37, the operator of El Divino Niño Daycare Center in Kingsbridge Heights where one-year-old Nicholas Feliz Dominici died on Sept. 15, 2023 from fentanyl poisoning, was sentenced to 45 years in prison for trafficking fentanyl out of the daycare center. The undercover drug operation resulted in the unintentional death of Nicholas, and the poisoning of three other infants who survived being unintentionally poisoned. As reported, Mendez had pleaded guilty in Oct. 29, 2024 in relation to her part in the operation before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff, who imposed sentence.