Chief Leader – October 13, 2015 by SARAH DORSEY Of the two solemn gatherings the Fire Department hosts uptown each fall, Memorial Day tends to draw the bigger crowds. Each Sept. 11, firefighters and Emergency Medical Service personnel are split between their quiet ceremony at the Firemen’s Memorial on Riverside Drive and the city’s event […]
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One Missing After Brooklyn Explosion
The Wall Street Journal – October 05, 2015 by Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Thomas MacMillan One person remained unaccounted for Sunday as authorities sifted through debris from a fatal explosion and fire that tore through a three-story building in Brooklyn’s Borough Park, officials said. City fire officials said the blast Saturday afternoon at 4206 13th […]
Woman Who Lived In Brooklyn Building that Exploded has been Missing Since Blast, as Authorities Identify a Body Found in Rubble
NY Daily News – October 05, 2015 by Anthony Izaguirre, Joseph Stepansky, Stephen Rex Brown A 48-year-old woman who lived in a Brooklyn building that exploded remained missing a day after the blast as authorities Sunday identified the body found in the rubble. Ligia Puello, 64, who lived on the third floor of the Borough […]
NYPD Union to Learn Whether Arbitration Gamble Pays Off
Newsday – October 02, 2015 by MATTHEW CHAYES An arbitration panel will decide soon how much of a salary hike New York City must pay the NYPD’s 24,000 rank-and-file police officers, and its ruling — if generous for the cops — could upset the tentative accord with the city’s biggest firefighters union. Gambling on arbitration […]
WTC Clinic in a Bind after Congress Lets Zadroga Act Expire
NY Daily News – October 02, 2015 by Jennifer Fermino Treating 13,000 patients a year at the World Trade Center Health Program is hard enough for Dr. Michael Crane — now he has to work under a cloud of uncertainty since part of the Zadroga Act expired. “I don’t have much hair left anyway, and […]
Ridgewood Fire House Celebrates 100 Years of Service
NY 1 – September 30, 2015 The city celebrated a local firehouse’s 100 years of service Tuesday. Engine Company 291, Ladder Company 140 was established in October 1915. On Tuesday, Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro joined firefighters in Ridgewood to celebrate. The firehouse serves Ridgewood and neighboring Bushwick and Glendale “I hope it’s here for another […]
3-Alarm Fire Engulfs Church in West Brighton
SI Advance – September 30, 2015 by Ryan Lavis STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 3-alarm fire ripped through a vacant church in West Brighton early Wednesday morning. More than a hundred firefighters responded to the call of a fire inside House of Miracles church at 641 Delafield Ave. at around 2:08 a.m., an FDNY spokesman […]
Expiring Zadroga health Program Has Funds for Another Year, Backers Say
Newsday – September 30, 2015 by TOM BRUNE WASHINGTON — Congressional authorization for the health program of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act expires at midnight Wednesday night — but its backers said the program has enough money available to last another year and they expect federal lawmakers to extend it this fall. […]
Editorial: Rescue the 9/11 Heroes by Permanently Extending the Zadrogra Act
NY Daily News – September 30, 2015 A national disgrace befalls America at midnight Wednesday at the expiration of legislation authorizing compensation and medical care for rescue and recovery workers sickened by their Ground Zero service after 9/11. The expiration of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act forces health centers that treat 33,000 […]
Blaze Consumes Staten Island Church, Prompting Massive FDNY Response
NY Daily News – September 30, 2015 by Keldy Ortiz A three-alarm blaze gutted a Staten Island church early Wednesday, according to fire officials. The fire was sparked at the House of Miracles church on Delafield Ave. and Elizabeth St. in Port Richmond just after 2 a.m., officials said. The church burned for over an […]
