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By Petr Svab, Epoch Times Left: FDNY Firefighter Brian Finley. (FDNY); Right: CPR training on a simulation dummy at Truckee Meadows Community College on Feb. 22, 2014. (Truckee Meadows Community College/CC BY 2.0) On- or off-duty, it’s good to have a firefighter around. A Queens man was lucky to have one as a neighbor on Sept. […]

By CHRISTIE L. CHICOINE Maria R. Bastone The faithful proudly gather at a Sept. 10 memorial service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan sponsored by the FDNY in remembrance of those in the department who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001, as well as those who have died since that date due to illnesses […]

A massive fire damaged several buildings in Manhattan’s historic SoHo district, jumping across several rooftops before firefighters were finally able to put it out. The fire started inside an upper-floor apartment inside 51 Greene St. at about 8:15 p.m. Tuesday, and quickly spread to a penthouse above, then jumping 20 to 30 feet to neighboring […]

Sept 13, 2016 3:24 PM By Amanda BernoccoIt was an exceptionally emotional experience for one Hampton Bays woman to watch the documentary “9/11: Fifteen Years Later” with her family on CNN on Sunday night—the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. As Tara Byrnes Cummings watched the film, which features the only known footage of firefighters […]

George Jones, a brigadier general who fought in WWII and the Korean War and served as a New York firefighter for 20 years died Sept. 2. He was 93. Jones was born April 28, 1923 in midtown, an area known as Hell’s Kitchen. At age 16, he joined the U.S. Army and was assigned to […]

  Picciotto was one of the many firefighters who answered the call that September morning. Soon after arriving at the World Trade Center buildings, he found himself trapped under the rubble of the North Tower with his crew for four hours until their calls were heard by other firefighters. He was virtually unharmed and didn’t […]

  Hizzoner meets with members of the FDNY and the labor unions to announce a new disability system that better protects firefighters hurt on the job at Ladder 1 in Manhattan on Monday. (TODD MAISEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) BY JENNIFER FERMINO NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 12:41 AM Enemies Gov. Cuomo and Mayor […]

By Elizabeth De Faria   /   Sunday, 11 Sep 2016 12:57PM Fifteen years have passed since 9/11 and firefighters are climbing stairs to honor those who fell that day trying to save lives. The attacks on the World Trade Center killed 343 firefighters from the New York City Fire Department, 70 law enforcement officers, […]

y  Gwynne Hogan and Aidan Gardiner | September 12, 2016 10:12am |Updated on September 12, 2016 10:55am Six people were hurt in a crash near Evergreen Avenue and Gates Avenue, officials said. BUSHWICK — Six people were hurt, two of them critically, when an SUV full of kids slammed into the front of one car only to rear-end a double-parked […]

New York Fire Department firefighter Robert Reeg of Stony Point was seriously injured while responding to the Sept. 11 attack. (Photo: Peter Carr/The Journal News) Certain industrial sounds still trigger Robert Reeg’s memories of World Trade Center jumpers hitting the pavement. Images of mass-murder on the nightly news send Reeg’s mind racing. He invariably recalls […]