A fast moving fire quickly engulfed the second and third floors of a large apartment building on Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights. One person was killed in the blaze and four others were injured. Update: Victim identified.
Families were left homeless on Sunday in Tzfat, Israel, as raging brush fires fueled by sweltering midsummer temperatures and high winds swept through a neighborhood on the northern edge of the historic spiritual center in Israel’s Galilee. Residents were also treated for smoke inhalation during the day.
A mini school bus, which has been converted into a rolling art project by a Jewish artist, was torched over the weekend and police are now investigating the incident as possibly being motivated by hate.
Unknown vandals brazenly set the trash in front of a Jewish apartment building ablaze on Monday afternoon.
A fire broke out on the fifth and sixth floors of a large apartment building on Lefferts Avenue in Crown Heights.
The Jewish community of Sea-Gate, located on the Southwestern edge of Brooklyn, is in shock after a fire ripped through a century-old synagogue, led for the past 25 years by Chabad Shluchim to Sea-Gate Rabbi Chaim and Rivkah Brikman.
A yellow school bus was torched late Sunday night outside a public school in Crown Heights.
A popular Crown Heights Pizzeria filled with customers sitting down for a post-Shabbos bite to eat was suddenly engulfed in smoke after a fire broke out in the kitchen.
A fire tore through a 4th floor apartment in a building on Carroll Street in Crown Heights. One firefighter was injured battling the blaze.
A fire broke out Friday morning in the basement of building which houses Oholei Torah Mesivta and forced the evacuation of the entire building, interrupting morning studies and prayers.
Reb Yoel Kahan, the Rebbe’s head Chozer, led a Simchas Beis Hashoeva Farbrengen last night in Boro Park, which was hosted by Heichal Menachem and attended by dozens of locals.
A fire broke out at the Mobile gas station on the corner of Empire Blvd. and New York Ave. in Crown Heights, injuring one of the workers employed there.
CrownHeights.info has obtained surveillance footage that clearly captured the arson incident which occurred in front of Beis Rivkah Sunday evening, in which a school bus was set ablaze by a group of children.
A school bus was set ablaze Sunday evening in what witnesses say was deliberately set by a group of children.
An elderly and disabled woman was killed when a fast moving fire tore through her home on Fenimore Street.
A Lefferts Avenue house, known by neighbors as a notorious drug den, went up in flames Tuesday night when a fire broke out on the first floor and quickly spread to the second floor.
Three industrial kosher kitchens were completely destroyed in a five-alarm fire that swept through a warehouse for hours near Kings County Hospital south of Crown Heights.
A Chabad ‘Mitzvah tank’ in Israel went up in flames during a public reading of the Megillah on Purim, but miraculously, all those inside escape unharmed.
A pickup truck caught fire outside a Chabad Jewish community center in Yonkers, NY, last night.
Fourteen years after saving the life a Lubavitcher teenager from a burning house in Crown Heights, now retired firefighter Joseph Scaramuzzino realized that his time with the FDNY meant something.
A fire broke out early Thursday morning inside the ‘Gabboims Closet’ in 770, causing panic amid a number of small Yud Shvat Farbrengens that were still going on at that early hour. Police rule out terrorism.
A fire broke out this morning on the 5th floor of a Crown Heights apartment building, located at 560 Lefferts Ave. near the corner of Kingston Ave.