#apartment-fire

#apartment-fire

Large numbers of police descended on an apartment building in the German city of Munich on Wednesday after a fire broke out inside, followed by loud explosions. One person was seriously injured, a police spokeswoman told AFP in the Bavarian state capital of Munich. She did not confirm media reports that shots had been fired and that one person had been found dead.

A Bay Ridge resident is in critical condition after he was rescued from an apartment fire on Saturday. The blaze broke out just before 4 p.m. in a second-floor apartment at the corner of 91st Street and Third Avenue, according to the FDNY, trapping 89-year-old Richard Martin inside. Firefighters crawled through thick smoke and flames to find and rescue an unconscious Martin, who was reportedly treated on the scene before being rushed to Staten Island University Hospital.

A second death has been confirmed at the site of an early morning apartment fire in San Rafael on Thursday. The body of a woman was found on Friday, and the fire is being deemed suspicious because of how rapidly spread. [KTVU] Police in Yerington, Nevada busted a 48-year-old man on his way to Burning Man allegedly toting a large haul of narcotics and prescription drugs, packaged for sale.

The Oakland fire department responded to a blaze at a small two-story apartment building on the 1200 block of 73rd Avenue just after 1 p.m. on Saturday.