Demolition begins at site of Newark building explosion
While authorities are calling it a building collapse, video shows an explosion at the apartment building.
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While authorities are calling it a building collapse, video shows an explosion at the apartment building.
Investigators are looking into what caused an explosion at a Newark apartment building. Saturday, demolition crews tore through debris as tenants are forced to find new places to live. CBS New York's Alecia Reid reports. Read more: https://cbsloc.al/3rEk0yH
Demolition began Saturday at the site of an apartment building explosion in Newark. Six people were hurt, one critically, and there are still questions as to how it happened. CBS New York's Elle McLogan reports. Read more: https://cbsloc.al/3rEk0yH
The once two-story building is now a pile of rubble, with walls peeled away and rooms exposed.
A once two-story building is now a pile of rubble – walls peeled away, rooms exposed. Neighbors up and down South Pine Lane say they felt the earth tremble. CBS New York's Christina Fan reports. Read more: https://cbsloc.al/3rEk0yH
Neighbors say the first floor of the building was vacant, but there was a tenant on the second floor.
Six people were hurt after what neighbors are calling an explosion at an apartment building in Newark on Friday. CBS New York's Alecia Reid reports. Read more: https://cbsloc.al/3Q5LAPs
At least five people were injured, one critically, in a possible explosion at a Newark Housing Authority property Friday. CBS New York's Alecia Reid reports. Read more: https://cbsloc.al/3Q5LAPs
An apartment building in Newark was partially destroyed in a possible explosion Friday. Jim Smith reports from Chopper 2. Read more: https://cbsloc.al/3Q5LAPs
She was a wearing a white, long-sleeved dark blue fleece pants and multicolored Crocs.
Police say she is nonverbal and has Down syndrome.
They are said to be demanding money and threatening to lock tenants out of their apartments.
They are said to be demanding money and threatening to lock tenants out of their apartments. CBS New York investigative reporter Tim McNicholas has the story.
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Hundreds of firefighters, many from around the U.S., attended the funeral in Newark to pay their respects to Firefighter Wayne Brooks Jr.
Family, friends and fellow firefighters gathered Friday to say goodbye to Newark Firefighter Captain Wayne Brooks Jr. He died in the line of duty while battling a cargo ship fire at Port Newark. CBS New York's Christine Sloan has more on how he's being remembered. Read more: https://cbsloc.al/3XQbsRi
Acabou was one of two firefighters killed in the line of duty while battling a cargo ship fire at Port Newark.
Wayne Brooks Jr. was killed battling the cargo ship fire at Port Newark.
Family and friends remembered Wayne Brooks Jr., one of the two Newark firefighters killed in the cargo ship fire, at his funeral on Friday. CBS New York's Christine Sloan reports.
For a second day in a row, the Newark Fire Department is saying goodbye to another esteemed member. CBS New York's Zinnia Maldonado reports from outside the cathedral.
The funeral for Firefighter Captain Augusto Acabou was held in Newark on Thursday. CBS New York's Christine Sloan has more on how he's being remembered. Read more: https://cbsloc.al/3JVhASL
Hundreds of family and friends gathered in Newark on Thursday for the funeral of firefighter Captain Augusto Acabou. He was killed last week while battling a fire on board a cargo ship in Port Newark. CBS New York's Christine Sloan reports. Read more: https://cbsloc.al/3JVhASL
He was one of two firefighters killed in the line of duty last week while battling the massive cargo ship fire at Port Newark.
CBS New York's Zinnia Maldonado reported outside Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, where dozens of fellow firefighters lined up to pay their respects.
Acabou died in the line of duty last week battling a cargo ship fire at Port Newark. CBS New York's Zinnia Maldonado has more on how he's being remembered.
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