A New Windsor man pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted arson and insurance fraud in a 2016 fire at a Town of Newburgh eatery he leased. Khaled Baroud, 61, admitted in Orange County Court to attempted arson in the March 13, 2016 fire that damaged USA Waffle, a waffle and bagel store at 440 South Plank Road.

This doesn’t rise to the level of prepperdom, where people are preparing for apocalyptic events ranging from a world economic collapse to chemical attacks or zombie takeovers, but the state Department of Financial Services is trying to get home insurers to offer outlines for disaster preparedness courses.

One person has died after a four-alarm fire burned through a large Yonkers apartment building Wednesday, forcing firefighters to battle both flames and weather conditions.

A drone used during a Monday night fire in a Bronx apartment may have helped save lives, FDNY says. The FDNY deployed a drone for the first time as a fire ripped through an apartment in Crotona Park.

Powerful and potentially dangerous winds blew across the Great Lakes region and the northeast United States Wednesday, derailing a train, blowing over tractor trailers and pushing a plane off a runway.

A CSX train carrying hazardous materials derailed Tuesday after striking a forklift being driven across the tracks by a steel company employee, leaving an engine resting across Water Street, injuring two and alarming local officials who long feared a derailment.

Sanford Heisler, LLP has filed a $50 million amended complaint in the US District Court on behalf of claims specialists Debra Julian and Stephanie McKinney, against MetLife, Inc., the nation’s largest insurance company, and two of its subsidiaries, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and MetLife Insurance Company USA.

On Friday, the meteorology community was riding a major high as stunningly high-definition images came in from the nation’s newest and much-anticipated earth observation satellite. The high came crashing down that evening, though, as the first hints of significant cuts to the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began to emerge.

If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times: You don’t want your vehicle to catch on fire. For that reason, Mercedes-Benz is recalling more than 354,000 vehicles.

Five people were injured and several buildings were damaged in a seven-alarm fire in Queens, authorities said.
The fire started late Saturday at an Ace Caribbean Market on Liberty Street in Richmond Hill and quickly ravaged 13 buildings, the FDNY said.

People sparked most US wildfires in recent decades, causing longer fire seasons and increasing the amount of scorched earth, according to a new study published Monday. Researchers found that humans caused 84 percent -- or four out of five -- of the total 1.5 million wildfires studied between 1992 and 2012.



In addition, human actions tripled the length of the fire season during those two decades and were responsible for 44 percent of the total acreage burned, researchers reported in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

United Technologies Corp’s (UTX.N) Carrier unit expanded a recall of some air conditioners and heat pumps as their power cord plugs can overheat, posing a fire risk, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday.

Authorities say a 77-year-old western New York man has died after the ambulance transporting him from a Pennsylvania hospital to a nursing home crashed into a ditch.

Powerful winds downed trees,branches and power lines across the Tri-State Area Monday. A wind advisory was in effect until 6 p.m. for much of the area and a high wind warning was issued for parts of the Jersey coast.

It may not come as a surprise that bruises and open wounds are the most common injuries in every state across America — with the one exception of Colorado, where you’re more likely to have be injured by a ‘fall’. But did you know that ‘over-exertion’ is disproportionately common in North Dakota, and a ‘near-drowning’ experience six-times more likely in Hawaii?