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Search Continues For Missing Boater, 3 Dead After Vessel Capsizes Off NYC Search Continues For Missing Boater, 3 Dead After Vessel Capsizes Off NYC
Search Continues For Missing Boater, 3 Dead After Vessel Capsizes Off NYC The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for one missing person after a boat sank five miles southeast of Breezy Point on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 24, leaving three people dead, according to NBC4 and the US Coast Guard. The incident began at 12:04 p.m. when Coast Guard Sector New York received an emergency notification from New York City 911 operators about a vessel taking on water near Breezy Point (located at the tip of the Rockaway Peninsula and directly across from New Jersey's Gateway National Recreation Area and the Sandy Hook Bay), authorities said. Rescue crews, along with the Sandy Hoo…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
'Very Close Call': House Collapses, 22 NYC Firefighters Injured In Staten Island Blaze 'Very Close Call': House Collapses, 22 NYC Firefighters Injured In Staten Island Blaze
'Very Close Call': House Collapses, 22 NYC Firefighters Injured In Staten Island Blaze UPDATE: A total of 22 New York City firefighters were injured – three of them seriously – while battling a blaze that collapsed part of a Staten Island home, the FDNY said Friday. The good news is that all are expected to survive. Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh called the incident a "very close call for the FDNY, which could have lost three members today."   A major collapse was reported minutes into the fire, which ignited in a 2½-story side-by-side duplex on Shotwell Avenue in the Arden Heights section shortly before 1:30 p.m. Feb. 17. The fire quickly went to four alarms, with multi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lifestyle
'Mob Wives' Spin-Off Star Linda Torres Dies Of COVID Complications, 67 'Mob Wives' Spin-Off Star Linda Torres Dies Of COVID Complications, 67
'Mob Wives' Spin-Off Star Linda Torres Dies Of COVID Complications, 67 "Mob Wives" spinoff "Big Ang" co-star Linda Torres died of COVID-19 complications at Staten Island University Hospital in New York on Thursday. She was 67 years old and had been battling the virus for nine weeks. Torres was a close friend of Angela "Big Ang" Raiola, who was the star of multiple Mob Wives spinoffs, including "Big Ang". After the show went off the air she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and was cancer free a year later, but in 2020 Torres's cancer had returned. We are saddened to hear about the passing of Linda Torres. Our hearts go out to her family, friends, an…

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by Jillian Pikora