A hot plate was the cause of a fire that killed a father and a daughter in the Bronx, police say.
The fire broke out at Sunday inside an apartment building at 2821 Dewey Ave. in Throgs Neck.
Nelson Rojas, 62, and his 13-year-old daughter Yolanda died at Jacobi Medical Center as a result of the fire.
The fire marshal's office says the hot plate was near bedding before it malfunctioned and caught fire.
Tenants tell News 12 the building has lacked heat over the years, which leads people to use unconventional method of heating.
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THROGGS NECK, Bronx (WABC) --
Authorities say two people were killed in a fire Sunday afternoon at a Bronx apartment building.
The
FDNY received the call at 12:12 p.m. for the fire in a 7-story
residential building on Dewey Avenue in the Throggs Neck Houses.
The fire was on the fourth floor.
The victims, a 62-year-old man and a 13-year-old girl, were found unconscious and unresponsive inside an apartment.
They were pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries.
The fire was placed under control within an hour.
The cause is under investigation.
FREMONT, CA (KRON)–
A 30-year-old man died Wednesday evening in a workplace accident at Sysco in Fremont, CA.
According to Fremont police, the accident happened at 7:59 p.m. in the 5900 block of Steward Avenue.
Investigators say that a 30-year-old driver was backing a company tractor and trailer towards a loading dock. The victim was standing behind the vehicle and guiding the driver.
The driver finished backing up to the loading dock and unhooked the trailer, officers said.
Nearly 15 minutes later the victim was found pinned between the end of the dock and the parked trailer. Police say he was unresponsive.
The trailer was reconnected to the tractor and moved to free the man.
Drugs and alcohol aren’t factors in this incident.
Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food
products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging
establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its
family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the
foodservice and hospitality industries. With over 65,000 associates, the
company operates approximately 300 distribution facilities across the
globe and serves more than 500,000 customer locations. For fiscal year
2017 that ended July 1, 2017, the company generated sales of more than
$55 billion.
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Worker Dies in Fremont After Getting Pinned Between Big Rig, Loading Dock
By Bay City News
January 11, 2018
A 30-year-old man died at work in Fremont Wednesday evening when he was pinned between a tractor trailer and a loading dock while helping the driver back into place, according to police.
Emergency crews responded to a business in the 5900 block of Stewart Avenue just before 8 p.m. on report of a collision between a tractor trailer and a pedestrian.
Investigators say the man was standing behind the tractor trailer, guiding the driver towards the loading dock when he was pinned in place.
The driver backed all the way in and unhooked the trailer from the tractor. He found the victim, unresponsive, 15 minutes later.
The driver moved the trailer, but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. He's been identified by the Alameda County coroner's bureau as Fremont resident Travis Michael St. Amant.
Drugs and alcohol were not factors in the incident, according to police.
Sunday, January 14, 2018
BURLINGTON CITY, N.J. (WPVI) -- Police said two people were transported to the hospital this afternoon after their car crashed through a metal fence and went into the icy Delaware River, one of whom has died.
According to Burlington County Police, a man and a woman were pulled from the river. The woman has died. Police said an accident did occur before the vehicle went into the water.
It happened just before 1 p.m. near 138 Riverbank Road in Burlington City, New Jersey.
Initial reports indicated that one person was able to get out of the vehicle; however, a second person remained inside.
Michael Baylor lives near the scene of the crash. He said he ran out of his house to help, but it was already too late.
"We were thinking she's been under so if she is alive it is a miracle," said Baylor. "They pulled him out and he said 'My girlfriend is in the car, can you help her?' and when they turned around he ran away."
Authorities confirm the driver fled on foot, leaving the woman behind. They said he was located a short time later and taken to Lourdes Hospital in Willingboro. Officials said he was not seriously injured.
Officials said the woman was extricated from the car around a half-hour later, at 1:27 p.m.
She was also transported to Lourdes Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Police said the driver was speeding on Riverbank Road when he hit a parked minivan and went over the river bank.
On Sunday the temperature of the Delaware River was only in the low 30s.
"With the weather, with the conditions, this is obviously a very severe event," said John Fine with the Burlington City Police Department.
No charges have been filed at this time.
The prosecutor's office said the investigation is ongoing.
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The Burlington City Police Department is investigating after crash leaves one person dead and the driver in custody when their auto ends up in the Delaware River. According to Burlington County Police, a man and a woman were pulled from the river. Police said an accident did occur before the vehicle went into the water.
Police responded to the riverfront promenade near Wood Street in Burlington City around 1 p.m. for a report of a vehicle in the water, the prosecutor's office said. Officials said that person was extricated from the auto around a half-hour later, at 1:27 p.m.
First responders found the vehicle partially submerged after it broke through the ice. The driver had fled the scene on foot, but his female passenger was still in the auto, authorities said. They were pronounced dead Saturday night at Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County in Willingboro.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the auto was traveling at a high rate of speed along Riverbank Road when the vehicle struck a parked minivan "before vaulting over the river wall and into the water", according to the prosecutor's office.
No charges have been filed, but an investigation is underway, the prosecutor's office said. Authorities did not release the names of the driver or passenger.
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3 people killed in two weekend crashes involving submerged vehicles
A woman died Sunday after the car she was riding in crashed through a metal barrier along the Riverfront Promenade in Burlington City and plunged into the icy Delaware River, the second fatal accident in two days in Burlington County involving submerged vehicles.
The Burlington City accident happened about 1 p.m on Riverbank when a vehicle left the road, crashed through the fencing and landed in the river, city police said.
Two people were inside, a male driver and female passenger. The driver, who was identified as a city resident, was able to escape, but the passenger was still in the vehicle when first responders arrived.
The woman was extricated and transported to Lourdes Medical Center of Burlington County in Willingboro, where she was pronounced dead, authorities said.
The driver ran off but was located a short time later by officers from Edgewater Park and Beverly. He was taken to Lourdes for a medical evaluation.
The names of the driver and deceased passenger were not released because notification of their families was still pending.
The other fatal crash occurred on Saturday about 4:30 p.m. at the jughandle of Route 130 and Bridgeboro Road in Willingboro. Authorities said a minivan was stopped at a red light and waiting to cross the highway when it was struck by a northbound vehicle, sent through a guard barrier, and down an embankment into Olympia Lakes, where it became submerged.
The occupants — identified as Robert Stephens, 52, and his wife, Janet, 50, of Burlington Township — were pulled from the water by rescue crews. Both were pronounced dead later that evening at Lourdes, according to the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office, which is investigating the accident with Willingboro police.
Amish Patel, 29, of Delanco, was identified as the driver of the car that struck the van. Patel was believed to be traveling at an excessive speed, but no charges have been filed, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
“The investigation will focus on whether criminal behavior was responsible for the collision and subsequent deaths,” said Joel Bewley, a spokesman for the Prosecutor’s Office.
The office is also assisting in the investigation of the Burlington City accident, along with numerous first responders, who arrived at the scene within minutes of the initial 911 call of a vehicle submerged in the river. Among the emergency crews were the city, Burlington Township, New Jersey State Police and Croydon, Pennsylvania.
Water rescue crews used a ladder to enter the river at a public parking area across from the Veterans of Foreign Wars building. The vehicle appeared to be submerged, with debris floating nearby on top of chunks of ice.
An investigation into the accident is ongoing, but officials from the Prosecutor’s Office indicated that the car was traveling at a high speed when it struck a minivan parked along the road, then vaulted through the fencing and into the water.
City resident Joe Entwistle, who witnessed the accident from the VFW, said he and several other bystanders tried to assist the occupants. He said a man in his mid to late 30s was on the back of the overturned and submerged vehicle and was helped out of the river.
“Three or four of us pulled him out. He was soaking wet and panicking, saying his girlfriend was in there. Then he took off. I guess he was in shock,” Entwistle said.
He said the vehicle was overturned with “four tires up” and sinking fast when he got to the scene.
Entwistle said he wasn’t sure how long the woman was underwater, but he couldn’t see her from the riverbank.
“It’s a shame. I think they got here pretty fast, but she must have been in there for 15 or 18 minutes,” he said.
City police Capt. John Fine said firefighters and rescue teams worked very quickly and extricated the motorist “within minutes.”
No charges had been filed against the driver as of Sunday night, according to the Prosecutor’s Office. His condition was not available.
The three weekend deaths marked the first traffic fatalities in Burlington County this year, according to New Jersey State Police records. Last year, 49 people died in 47 motor vehicle accidents in the county. Only Ocean County had a higher death toll, with 54.
