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Chief Leader – April 20, 2017 by BOB HENNELLY Uniformed Firefighters Association Vice-President Gerard Fitzgerald has prevailed over retired Firefighter Kenny Specht in the run-off for the union’s presidency, garnering 3,230 votes to his opponent’s 2,446. Close to 400 fewer ballots were cast compared to the initial election in March. In the face-off for Recording […]

NY Post – April 20, 2017 by Tina Moore and Daniel Prendergast A firefighter battling a blaze in Queens was seriously injured Thursday when he fell off the roof of a five-story apartment building, officials and sources said The fire started on the second floor of a five-story building on Putnam Ave. in Ridgewood around […]

By Dartunorro Clark | April 19, 2017 2:41pm | Updated April 20, 2017 2:02pm @DartDClark Doris Crawford, 71, and John Crawford, 80, were found dead inside their home at 1952 First Ave. Sunday, police said. DNAinfo/Dartunorro Clark EAST HARLEM — The elderly couple who died from carbon monoxide poisoning removed the batteries from their CO detector when the alarm started […]

SI Advance – April 19, 2017 by PAUL LIOTTA STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Two firefighters are credited with saving an individual who was hanging from a Grant City apartment building during a Monday afternoon fire, according to a Facebook post from the FDNY. Ronald Mitchell of Rescue 5 and Michael Luongo of Engine 160 worked […]

UFANYC.org – April 18, 2017 by www.UFANYC.org NEW YORK CITY – The Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA) formally announced the results of today’s leadership runoff elections. Due to no candidate receiving a majority in round one, the race for President and Recording Secretary went into a runoff with Gerard Fitzgerald and Robert Eustace emerging victorious. “Congratulations […]

By: DANA ARSCHIN POSTED:APR 18 2017 06:04PM EDT UPDATED:APR 18 2017 06:15PM EDT NEW YORK (FOX 5 NEWS) – Hundreds of New York’s Bravest have now taken their heroism to the next level with the FDNY. It was graduation day for more than 300 probationary firefighters in East New York, Brooklyn. In this class is […]

By Shaye Weaver | April 18, 2017 3:50pm @shayeweaver TwitterFacebookEmailMore UPPER EAST SIDE — A fire broke out at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Tuesday afternoon, the FDNY said. Approximately 60 firefighters responded to the scene after the blaze was reported in the hospital’s “G level” at 444 E. 68th St., between York and First avenues, […]

EAST HARLEM — A daughter preparing to take her elderly parents to church on Easter Sunday found them dead in their apartment from apparent carbon monoxide poisoning possibly stemming from a defective stove, according to police and reports. Doris Crawford, 71, and John Crawford, 80, were found dead inside their home at 1952 First Ave. Sunday after […]

12shares BY MAURA GRUNLUND grunlund@siadvance.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A fire in a Grant City apartment building was the result of smoking in a unit that did not have a working smoke alarm, according to the FDNY. The fire on Monday afternoon in the seven-story building at 145 Lincoln Ave. injured three people, according to […]

This Bravest is the oldest. Probationary firefighter Hazim Tawfiq has joined the FDNY at age 44 after a long battle over his rap sheet. Tawfiq failed an FDNY entry exam in 1999, then joined a federal lawsuit that successfully accused the FDNY of racial discrimination. He won a cash settlement and a second chance to […]