In the span of a few days, there have been two separate incidents of adults acting stupidly and leaving children either badly hurt or dead. Last Friday, an 9-year-old boy was burned on 70% of his body when attending a friend's birthday party. Because it was raining, the birthday boy's mother Rhonda Kavee brought the party inside to her Murray Hill dental practice and started a grill to roast S'mores. But the fire didn't get......

Two different fires in Brooklyn and the Bronx yesterday killed four people and injured three more. Both fires occurred relatively early Saturday morning. The first was reported about 7 a.m. and was on the second floor of a two-story house in Bensonhurst. The occupants were all immigrants from Guatemala. It took firefighters almost 40 minutes to bring the blaze under control, at which point three of the residents had succumbed to smoke inhalation. Another was......

The Brooklyn fire that killed FDNY Lt. John H. Martinson was caused by a six-year-old child who was playing with wrapping or packaging paper over the open flames of a stove left on to heat a 14th floor apartment. When the paper caught fire, the boy attempted to hide the smoldering paper under a mattress, trailing embers throughout the apartment. When the child's mother discovered the bedroom in flames, she grabbed the six-year-old and his......