Month: November 2016

Two construction workers were killed in Queens last week when a crane wire snapped, causing a 6,500 pound steel beam to come crashing down onto the crane’s cab. George Smith, a 47 year old crane operator, and Alessandro Ramos, a 43 year old flag man, were killed while guiding the steel beam when the crane…

A six-alarm fire ripped through an apartment building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan last week, leaving one dead and more than a dozen injured. According to the FDNY, the fire started at about 3:20 a.m. in an apartment building on East 93rd Street in Yorkville. After extinguishing the flames, firefighters found the body…