A 7-year-old boy was killed and his pregnant mom seriously hurt when they were struck by a Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority truck in East Harlem early Friday
Transit truck kills boy, 7, injures pregnant mother in East Harlem A 7-year-old boy was killed and his pregnant mom seriously hurt when they were struck by a Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority truck in East Harlem early Friday, officials said. Max Mendez died shortly after the truck crushed his legs at the entrance to the RFK/Triborough Bridge ramp on E. 124th St. just after 8 a.m., according to police. His mother – Erica Lorenzo, 35 – was rushed to Harlem Hospital and is in serious but stable condition, police said. “I was waiting for my barber shop to open and heard the...
A DC-10 jumbo jet tanker drops retardant on top of the crest of Hauser Peak to protect microwave towers in Palmadale, Calif., from a wildfire on Friday
Calif. wildfire jumps aqueduct, threatens 2,000 homes ‘We are deploying everything that we’ve got,’ Gov. Schwarzenegger says PALMDALE, Calif. ? A huge wildfire in the high desert wilderness north of Los Angeles jumped an aqueduct on Friday, rushing toward hundreds of houses as firefighters also tried to keep flames from damaging power lines that bring electricity to Southern California. Some 2,000 structures were threatened and 300 homes were evacuated, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said. Evacuations were lifted late Friday, but residents of about 500 homes in Rancho Vista were...
