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Good Samaritan Rescues Hudson River Boaters As Yacht Goes Down In Smoke Good Samaritan Rescues Hudson River Boaters As Yacht Goes Down In Smoke
Good Samaritan Rescues Hudson River Boaters As Yacht Goes Down In Smoke A good Samaritan rescued a group of boaters whose yacht caught fire and sank in the Hudson River on Saturday. All eight quickly got to safety as North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue boats moved in and began spraying the 48-foot vessel around 3:30 p.m., responders and witnesses said. The bulk of the blaze was in the boat's sleeping quarters, "which makes it difficult to extinguish," NHRFR Capt. Jason Hodge said. A #Boatonfire on #hudsonriver Edgewater which just capcized. @CNN @ABC @NBC @1010WINS @ pic.twitter.com/Xhd3hixH1r — Daisy Khan (@DaisyKhan) August 20, 2022 Onlookers gathered…

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19 Confirmed Dead, Dozens More Critically Injured In Deadliest NYC Fire Of This Century 19 Confirmed Dead, Dozens More Critically Injured In Deadliest NYC Fire Of This Century
19 Confirmed Dead, Dozens More Critically Injured In Deadliest NYC Fire Of This Century UPDATE: At least 19 people, including nine children, were killed Sunday when a fire tore through a high-rise Bronx apartment building -- a blaze that New York City Mayor Eric Adams called "one of the worst that we have witnessed during modern times.” The cause of the five-alarm fire? A "malfunctioning electric space heater” in a bedroom of a duplex apartment on the second and third floors of the 19-story building, NYFD Commissioner Daniel Nigro said. A door to the apartment was left open, filling the building with smoke, Nigro told reporters. All of the children killed were 16 years old a…

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by Jerry DeMarco