By SÍLE MOLONEY
PEOPLE PASS NORTH North Central Bronx Hospital on July 11. Subject to approval by the state Department of Health, the hospital is expected to merge with Jacobi Medical Center according to North Bronx Healthcare Network.
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A report of a fire on Sunday, June 7, at a hospital in Norwood was unfounded, according to the FDNY.
Following the circulation of a social post advising of the fire, Norwood News reached out to the FDNY and a department spokesperson said the fire department received a call at 11.52 a.m. on Sunday for a report of a fire at 3424 Kossuth Avenue, the address for NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx, located between DeKalb Avenue and East 210th Street.
According to the spokesperson, emergency units investigated the incident and found no condition at the location and it was deemed to be “an unwarranted alarm” and the incident was closed at 12.04.
As reported, the cause of the fire at 660 East 187th Street in Belmont on April 21 was deemed to be accidental. Read our prior coverage of the fire here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
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