Brooklyn (NY) Apartment Fire Kills Man, SUVs Parked at Hydrants Delay FDNY

A 37-year-old man was killed and a woman and toddler critically hurt when a fire ripped through their Brooklyn apartment building early Sunday.
Arill Nyquist - Joseph Scaramuzzino

Deaths of Two FDNY Members Reclassified as 9/11-Related Deaths

The Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA) has reclassified the deaths of two retired members of the FDNY as 9/11-related.

Four Firefighters Hurt in Fire in Abandoned Harlem (NY) Building

Four firefighters were injured battling a massive fire that tore through an abandoned Harlem building where jazz icon Billie Holiday reportedly once lived.
At center, Frank Leeb and Dan Noonan with other members of the fire service

Remembering the New York Telephone Fire: 50 Years Later

Frank Leeb recounts the New York Telephone Fire, the work of the late Dan Noonan, and how the incident transformed our understanding of the toxicity…

Brooklyn (NY) Three-Alarm Fire Sends Five to Hospital

FDNY firefighters faced brutal weather conditions early Wednesday as they battled a three-alarm fire in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn.
Baby Rescue Staten Island

Baby Passed Through Window in Dramatic FDNY Rescue at Staten Island House Fire

A firefighter who ran into a burning, smoke-filled home grabbed a baby from a bunk bed and passed the child through a basement window to…

NYC Space Heater Fire Kills Woman, 88; Building Had Heat Complaints

An elderly woman critically injured in a Washington Heights electrical fire has died, with the FDNY saying that the fire was sparked by at least one space heater that…
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