Chief Leader – September 06, 2016 by SARAH DORSEY The toxic dust from the World Trade Center’s destruction ravaged the lungs of many a first-responder. It wreaked havoc on digestive systems and sparked cancers in thousands. At Risk for Alzheimer’s Now some scientists believe it may also be affecting their brains. A Stony Brook University […]
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Chief Peter Ganci Died Leading Rescue Efforts at 9/11’s Ground Zero
Investor’s Business Daily – September 05, 2016 by MICHAEL MINK Peter J. Ganci Jr. always wanted to serve, and be where the action was. When terrorists hijacked two commercial jetliners and slammed them into the 110 story twin towers at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, nobody would have questioned Ganci if he had […]
Garden City’s Wounds Linger 15 Years after 9/11
Newsday – September 04, 2016 by Martin C. Evans Eileen Castellano remembers the funerals at St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Garden City in the days and months after Sept. 11, 2001. One after another, after another, after another. Castellano, 82, whose husband, Stephen, taught Chaucer and Shakespeare at Garden City High School, knew the […]
Mets’ David Wright meets with FDNY Engine 39 & Ladder 16
By Ryan Hatch | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com on September 03, 2016 NEW YORK — Mets slugger David Wright met with a New York City fire department on Friday as part of the team’s annual tradition of meeting with firehouses for the 9/11 anniversary. Wright, who’s out for the year after undergoing neck surgery in June, met […]
Firefighter gets job back after arguing commissioner’s ‘double standard’
By Susan Edelman and Dean Balsamini September 4, 2016 A hero FDNY firefighter dismissed after testing positive for cocaine has won his job back — after arguing that Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro gave a similar break to his predecessor’s son. Glen Merkitch, 47, who has won bravery awards for his rescues, failed a random test […]
CAPTAIN BRIAN HICKEY- FDNY Rescue Company 4
There is no telling how many New Yorkers are walking around because Capt. Brian Hickey became a New York City firefighter 20 years ago. He commanded Rescue Company 4, which rushes to every major fire in Queens, not to fight flames, but to save trapped civilians and firefighters. It has always been among the department’s […]
BRAVEST WILL ALWAYS FLY OLD GLORY WITH PRIDE
BY JAMES A. LEMONDA It is unfortunate that so close to the 15th Anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, there are firefighters in the town of Poughkeepsie that have to fight and negotiate to place American flags on their fire apparatus. While the controversy in the upstate community has now largely been settled, […]
FDNY-Construction Accident at 86th Street and Central Park Leaves 2 Hurt
By Kathleen Culliton and Aidan Gardiner | September 1, 2016 10:53am |Updated on September 1, 2016 6:54pm The Department of Buildings will investigate the West 86th Street construction accident, officials said.View Full Caption DNAinfo/Kathleen Culliton UPPER WEST SIDE — Two construction workers were knocked into a 10-foot-deep cellar by a door frame that became dislodged Thursday morning, officials said. The pair was […]
Kayakers Collide With New York Ferry
Eleven kayakers including a child were rescued and at least five were injured after a collision with a NY Waterway ferry at Pier 79 on the Hudson River today, officials from the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) said via Facebook. One kayaker with serious injuries had been taken to Bellevue Hospital and four kayakers with lesser injuries were been taken to Mount Sinai […]
Person pulled from water after jump from Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
By Maura Grunlund | grunlund@siadvance.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter on August 30, 2016 at 2:09 PM, updated August 31, 2016 at 6:04 AM Update: The 37-year-old man who leaped from the span died at Richmond University Medical Center. STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Authorities confirmed that a person jumped from the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge […]
