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More than 500 people scaled 2,200 steps at Truist Park’s Patriot Day Stair Climb, to honor fallen firefighters and raise money for Georgia firefighters and their families
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Deputy Chief John Russell likened the reason to “a salmon swimming upstream” as dozens of firefighters were moving in, and the injured firefighter was trying to get out
Battalion Chief Fitzsimmons joined the FDNY and was assigned to Engine 289 in Queens, just four months before the 9/11 terror attacks
The fire took two hours to get under control and had extended into two a Buddhist temple and another exposure
Bureau of Fire Investigation for largest fire department in the US will leverage NICE technology to investigate and bring cases involving suspicious fires to resolution faster
FDNY Chief Kevin Woods said that the stability of the building was so bad that firefighters were ordered out and switched to an exterior attack
The Uniformed Firefighters Association stated that the two members had served at Ground Zero
Firefighters used a bandsaw to cut parts of the wrought iron fence before handing the teen to EMS
Anthony Saccavino was one of two former chiefs in the FDNY’s Bureau of Fire Prevention charged with rushing improper requests to expedite inspections
The top-floor fire in a Brooklyn apartment building extended into the cockloft and attached exposures
FDNY Chief of Department John Esposito and other commanders went to the Palisades and Eaton fireground to speak with firefighters and bring back information to use in the city
Captain Anthony Harper located the baby in the bottom of a bunk bed and moved to a window to avoid carrying the child through the smoke
Firefighters were unable to get into the fire apartment from the inside during a two-alarm blaze in Brooklyn that injured 16 occupants
Anthony Aquaro joined the FDNY in 1953 and served 26 years with Engine Company 269 in Brooklyn
FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker presented data from 2024 on fires related to lithium-ion batteries
Close to 200 occupants were displaced after fire ripped across the top floor of a six-story Bronx apartment building
Remembering the three firefighters killed, many others injured, and recognizing the push for continued training and equipment
Jan. 23, 2005, marked the first time since 1918 that FDNY members had died in separate calls on the same day
Union officials said the toll could delay getting firefighters to firehouses and create an estimated $1.8M in overtime pay
Lieutenant John Vanderstar and Firefighter Brendan Gaffney were awarded the Medal of Valor for rescuing occupants in two separate fires
The decision reinstates plea deals for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two others involved in the Sept. 11 terror attacks, sparing them the death penalty
“I just wanted to follow in my father’s footsteps,” Probationary Firefighter Dennis Meyran said, recalling the motivation to complete the FDNY academy
Funding for the World Trade Center Health Program through 2040 was eliminated in the stopgap bill to fund the federal government
The NYPD has a person of interest in custody after a woman was intentionally set on fire while she was possibly asleep
The Setting Consumer Standards for Lithium-Ion Batteries Act is expected to be passed by Congress in the coming days
‘Ticking time bombs': FDNY responds to e-bike store fire, finds hundreds of damaged Li-ion batteries
Firefighters faced heavy fire on the first floor of the Manhattan e-bike store and found Li-ion batteries stored in the basement
An apartment fire on Manhattan’s Upper East Side began on the fifth floor and extended into the sixth and fourth floors before being extinguished
FDNY Monsignor John Delendick took over as the department’s senior chaplain after Father Mychal Judge was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks
Fire marshals, inspectors and drone operators will organize operations for firefighters and create risk assessment models to identify possible future fire locations
Fire on the top of the 44-story high-rise sent smoke across the Manhattan skyline
Officials said the FDNY usually responds to approximately 200 brush fires each year in October alone
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