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Home / Joseph Wolkin / Long Island Modified Racer Kyle Soper to Attempt Camping World Truck Series Debut (Photo: Kyle Soper) September 26, 2016 Joseph Wolkin, News, Truck Series News Long Island, New York’s Kyle Soper will be getting schooled at a different level come Oct. 29’s Camping World Truck Series Alpha Energy Solutions 200 at […]

  The Chief-Leader/Pat Arnow GRATITUDE DIDN’T LAST LONG: Less than two weeks after Steve Cassidy’s three-year battle to get younger Firefighters the same disability protection as more-senior colleagues ended in victory when Governor Cuomo signed a bill upgrading their benefit, board members of the Uniformed Firefighters Association forced him to step down immediately as president […]

By Alison Fox alison.fox@amny.com September 26, 2016 Ssiller the dog, TSA canine named for fallen FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller, retired on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2016. (Credit: Transportation Security Administration) Participants near the finish line during the Thousands race in Tunnel to Towers run It’s time for this dog to take a paws. Ssiller, a 7-year-old […]

Cops, firefighters and Con-Ed workers were caught in an explosion at a Bronx home early Tuesday while investigating an odor of gas. By Brendan Krisel (Patch National Staff) – September 27, 2016 12:25 pm ET THE BRONX, NY — One fire chief was killed and more than 20 others were injured when a possible marijuana […]

Robert “Pudgie” Walsh, head coach of the Brooklyn Mariners, died Wednesday. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, September 23, 2016, 6:58 PM The FDNY will say goodbye to one of the founders of the Bravest football team on Monday. Retired lieutenant Robert “Pudgie” Walsh died Sept. 21. He was 82. Walsh, the son of an NYPD […]

PHOTOS COURTESY ST. HELEN CATHOLIC ADACADEMY The students and community of St. Helen Catholic Academy in Howard Beach held a rememberance of Sept. 11, 2001 with a Mass and memorial ceremony at the schools dedication tree on on Friday, Sept. 9th.  Posted: Thursday, September 22, 2016 10:30 am 0 comments Remembering September 11 The students and […]

BY JON CRONIN Editor Over 2,500 people attended the second annual NYPD and FDNY “Battle of the Badges” cook-off this past Sunday at Resorts World Casino New York City. Ed Behringer, NYPD Detective with the Highway Patrol Collision Investigation Squad, stole the coveted grand prize from the FDNY by wowing the judges with his almond-encrusted […]

Written by Drew Kelly Richard Picciotto was on call the day the World Trade Centers collapsed He was trapped under the rubble at ground zero of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. FDNY Battalion Chief Richard Picciotto was on call that day Sept. 11, 2001 when the World Trade Centers collapsed. Picciotto told […]

JAMAICA, Queens (WABC) – The source of a noise that many people reported as an explosion in Queens Wednesday is being disputed and remains a mystery. Emergency officials began getting reports of an explosion-like noise near JFK Airport at about 2:20 p.m.  The NYPD posted on social media that two military F22 aircraft flying over […]

Two Rockland families will share in the settlement. Buy Photo (Photo: Peter Carr/The Journal News) The families of five New York City firefighters — two of them from Rockland County — have reached a $29.5 million settlement with the city over a fatal 2005 Bronx blaze. The settlement was negotiated after a jury last February awarded $183 million to […]