The hits keep coming for residents trying to rebuild long after Hurricane Sandy: A New York state building mandate has new requirements for elevated homes.
Three-story homes, which in New York now …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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2/17/14
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The Long Beach Fire Department, along with 10 other local departments, responded to a two-alarm fire on East Beech Street in the early hours of Friday morning.
Fire Commissioner Scott Kemins said …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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1/24/14
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Canals residents John O’Grady and Kurt Kress were just two weeks away from moving back into the newly renovated house from which they have been displaced since Hurricane Sandy. That all changed on …
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By Alexandra Spychalsky
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7/18/13
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Michael Seemann watched his new house fly high above his head. Well, part of it, anyway.
Suspended by a 40-foot crane, the last piece of Seeman’s new modular home was put in place at around …
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Alexandra Spychalsky
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4/17/13
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Fred Vordermeier, 39, who moved to Long Beach from Manhattan with his wife in 2009 to raise a family, pays $3,600 a year for flood insurance. He said that the foundation of his East Chester Street …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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3/27/13
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The Jackson Hotel, which was sold last month and is undergoing renovations, was slapped with a stop-work order last week, after building inspectors discovered asbestos in the 90-year-old building, at 405 E. Broadway.
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By Vanessa Canner
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8/23/12
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A fire destroyed an East Bay Drive home just after midnight on Thursday, causing so much damage that the home is in the process of being demolished.
“I have deemed the building unsafe and …
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By Vanessa Canner
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6/28/12
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Long Beach firefighters battled an intense house fire at Lincoln Avenue and East Pine Street on Dec. 21 that left three firefighters injured and two pets dead.
According to Fire Commissioner Scott …
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By Chris Engelhardt
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1/4/12
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“It’s a day that profoundly impacted our nation,” Capt. Al Fuentes, of the New York City Fire Department’s Marine Division, said during last Sunday’s memorial ceremony …
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By Chris Engelhardt
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9/14/11
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“They have two young children, and they lost everything,” Long Beach Fire Department Chief Rich Corbett said of a Wyoming Avenue family whose home was destroyed in a storm-related fire on Sunday. …
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By Anthony Rifilato
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8/31/11
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