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Smoking-caused Fires in
New York, United States
July 5, 2016
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Athens

4/27/15

FASNY conference informs Hudson Valley

The Daily Mail In the 1970s, many furniture fires were started by people falling asleep while smoking or dropping lit cigarettes on the upholstery.

Booneville

3/28/13 Oneida County fire that displaced 30 started by cigarette Syracuse.com A fire in Oneida County that displaced about 30 people was apparently caused by a cigarette that wasn't fully put out, News Channel 9 reported.

Bronx

12/16/15

FDNY: Six-Alarm Fire in the Bronx Caused by 'Carelessly Discarded Cigarette' ny1.com Nine people, including three firefighters, were hurt in the fire in Fordham Heights that burned six buildings.

Discarded Cigarette Caused Massive Bronx House Fire, FDNY Says DNAINFO.COM The six-alarm blaze started just before midnight on Dec. 10 at 2086 Valentine Ave., a three-story home near East 180th Street, and spread to nine nearby buildings, leaving 10 people injured and 83 homeless, officials said.

Brooklyn

1/2016 Deadly Brooklyn Browstone Fire Caused by Smoking:FDNY NBCNewYork.com The fire that killed a man inside a four-family brownstone in Brooklyn New Year's Day has been determined to be accidental, the result of someone smoking in the house, fire officials say.
12/22/15

93-year-old woman smoked near oxygen tank, dies in fire

New York Post A 93-year-old woman who infuriated neighbors by chain smoking in her apartment while also using an oxygen tank died when she fell asleep and set her Brooklyn apartment on fire, neighbors and cops said.
10/23/13 Smoking May Have Sparked Massive Brooklyn Blaze FireHouse.com A "careless discard of smoking materials" on a front porch is believed to have caused a massive fire in Flatbush early yesterday morning that reportedly left more than a dozen people homeless, according to the FDNY.
11/17/12 B'klyn man dies after starting a fire while smoking in bed New York Post The 39-year-old accidentally started the fire while smoking in bed at a second-floor Midwood residence on Ocean Avenue near Avenue I, police sources said.

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Canadaigua

12/1/15 Improperly extinguished 'smokes' blamed for recent structure fires Irondeqouit Post - On Nov 25, just one day before Thanksgiving, a lit cigarette allegedly discarded out a second floor window in Geneva left a home uninhabitable.

Carmel

5/4/13 Carmel fire survivor's smoking habits were crucial to questioning lohud.com The lone survivor of a fire that killed his parents and two sisters at their home last May repeatedly told police he had no idea what started the blaze, only suggesting near the end of a five-hour interrogation that an ember from his cigarette “probably” sparked it.
6/7/12 Son's flicked cigarette started Carmel fire that killed former NYPD cop & family NY Post A deadly house fire that killed a former New York cop, his wife and two daughters, was accidentally sparked by a cigarette flicked by the son, officials said today.
Devastating fire that killed police captain's family was started by his son's cigarette... and he was the only one to survive DailyMail.co.uk
Fire that killed Carmel family caused by son's cigarette ash Your News Now

Hell's Kitchen

9/4/15

Broadway Actress Vivien Eng Dies After Hell's Kitchen Fire

Time Warner Cable News NY Fire officials say the cause of the fire was "careless discard of smoking materials."
9/3/15

Broadway Actress Dies From Injuries Suffered in Apartment Fire: Neighbors dnainfo.com Fire marshalls believe the fire started from cigarette or other "smoking material" that hadn't been put out properly...

Hudson

5/3/12 Cigarette likely cause of fire that displaced 120 cats The Daily Mail Cigarette likely cause of fire that displaced 120 cats

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Lima

1/25/16

Deputies: Woman started apartment fire with tossed cigarette

cnycentral.com A Honeoye Falls woman was charged with starting a fire at an apartment complex Sunday.

Long Island

1/4/13 Cortlandt Manor fire sparked by cigarette kills 58-year-old man New York Newsday An unextinguished cigarette sparked a blaze inside a Cortlandt Manor home Friday morning that killed a 58-year-old man, State Police said.

Newburgh

12/10/15

Police: Newburgh fire ignited by lit cigarette News 12 Westchester Police say a lit cigarette caused a fire that left several families homeless for the holidays.

New York

1/17/16

Paraplegic woman’s cigarette may have ignited fire

New York Post A 69-year-old paraplegic woman was burned over 75 percent of her body when flames tore through her apartment on the Upper West Side on Sunday morning — and her cigarette may have ignited the blaze, police sources said.
4/18/13 Artist dies in E. Village fire New York Post An elderly East Village artist known for her giant abstract bronze sculptures died in a fiery apartment blaze sparked by smoking in bed, a police source said yesterday.
3/9/13 Bed cig eyed in Upper E. Side fire New York Post Fire marshals are investigating the blaze, which may have been sparked by someone smoking on the 12th floor of the 40-story building at 1763 Second Ave. at 92nd Street
UES Fire May Have Been Caused By Cigarette On Mattress Gothamist.com The FDNY is still investigating, but there's some suspicion it may have been caused by a careless smoker.

1/7/13 City’s 58 Fire Deaths in ’12 Are Lowest on Record New York Times Smoking accounted for 15 fire deaths, and cooking fires were responsible for 7 deaths, according to data provided by the city.
5/19/12 Are You Safe on That Sofa? New York Times It turns out that our furniture first became full of flame retardants because of the tobacco industry, according to internal cigarette company documents examined by The Tribune.
4/4/12 Early numbers show positive results in reducing cigarette related fire deaths in NY National Fire Protection Association There were 24 cigarette fire deaths per year in New York in 2006-2007 (the first full year when it should not have been possible to legally buy a non-compliant cigarette in New York), a one-third (35%) decline from 38 per year in 2002-2003.

Patchogue

3/2012 Patchogue man hospitalized after cigarette burn Newsday.com Patchogue man hospitalized after cigarette burn

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Plattsburgh

12/29/12 Cigarette blamed for fire at senior housing Press Republican Officials said a cigarette likely caused a couch fire in a unit of the Robert S. Long Apartments Friday afternoon.

Port Chester

5/2/13 Port Chester apartment fire, likely caused by smoking, leaves 27 homeless Newsday.com A fire from a carelessly placed cigarette caused an overnight fire that left 27 people from six families homeless in Port Chester, officials said.

Queens

4/6/12 FDNY: Poorly Disposed Cigarettes Cause Of Queens Apartment Fire NY1.com City fire marshals say carelessly discarded cigarettes are to blame for a fast moving fire in Queens late Friday that sent a woman to the hospital.

Rochester

1/23/12 Discarded smoking materials cause of deadly fire on Avacado Lane WHEC TV News10NBC spoke to the fire chief Monday morning who says the fire on Avacado Lane was caused by discarded smoking.

Rotterdam

11/4/13 Smoking may be fatal fire's cause TimesUnion.com The house fire that killed 71-year-old disabled man last week was an accident and may have been caused by careless smoking, according to the fire and police officials.

Warrensburg

7/24/13 Cops eye smoking in fatal fire Times Union A 50-year-old man who died in a Warrensburg house fire Wednesday morning may have fallen asleep with a lit cigarette in hand, the Warren County Sheriff's office said.

West Harrison

8/15/13 Officials say lit cigarette caused apartment blaze LoHud.com A 61-year-old woman was found dead Tuesday morning in her Underhill Avenue apartment after a fire broke out on her couch, where fire officials believe she was smoking a cigarette and may have fallen asleep.

Williamsburg

12/4/16 Elderly Williamsburg Residents Displaced After Fire Caused By Cigarette dnainfo.com A cigarette caused a fire that tore through two floors of a Williamsburg apartment building on Tuesday and left residents of three apartments temporarily homeless and scrambling to find shelter on couches and in beds of their friends and relatives, they said.

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