Chief Leader – August 18, 2015 by SARAH DORSEY Excruciating cell-phone footage of Firefighter Robert Wiedmann’s 2011 escape from a Brooklyn house fire, engulfed in flames, may have helped clinch the Aug. 6 deal that delivered a tentative contract agreement for the Uniformed Firefighters Association. Held Pact Together Mayor de Blasio’s agreement to return a fifth […]
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Crowded East River Ferry Makes Hard Landing at Pier 11, Injuring 10 while Launching Passengers Into Air
NY Daily News – August 13, 2015 by Reuven Blau, Joseph Stepansky Ten people suffered minor injuries when an East River Ferry full of passengers crowded near the front made a hard landing at Pier 11 in the Financial District on Wednesday night, authorities said. “The ferry just came in too fast and slammed into […]
Fire Marshals Still Investigating Suspicious New Brighton Fire
SI Advance – August 12, 2015 by Mira Wassef STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Fire marshals are still investigating the cause of a suspicious fire that engulfed an abandoned building in New Brighton last week, according to the FDNY. Approximately 100 firefighters and 10-15 units responded to the two-alarm blaze on the second story at 33 […]
Thousands of 9/11 Rescuers Suffering from Cancer
NY Daily News – August 12, 2015 by Anthony Colangelo Reporter The number of front line emergency service workers suffering cancer after coming to the aid of those hit during the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City has spiked to dramatic levels. Around 3,700 firefighters, police and other first responders have reported suffering […]
Kirsten Gillibrand Calls For Zadroga Act for 9/11 First Responders to be Extended Permanently
NY Daily News – August 12, 2015 by Edgar Sandoval, Reuven Blau Congress should permanently extend the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act for Ground Zero aid workers, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Tuesday. The measure — signed into law in 2010 — offers medical treatment and compensation for first responders who became ill during […]
Editorial: UFA Deal Solves Problems
Chief Leader – August 11, 2015 by RICHARD STEIER It took a while, with some angry words accompanying the delay, but the Uniformed Firefighters Association finally won a large measure of pension justice for its newer members under the contract deal reached last week that includes a commitment by the de Blasio administration to support […]
Three Injured, Including Two Firefighters, During Queens Fire That Tore Through Two Maspeth Homes: Officials
NY Daily News – August 10, 2015 by Ryan Sit Three people were injured, including two firefighters, when a three-alarm fire gutted two homes in Queens early Sunday, Fire Department officials said. The blaze tore through the basement, first floor and roof of a two-story brick home before spreading to an adjacent house on 52nd […]
What’s in a Name?
The Kingston Whig-Standard – August 06, 2015 by Patrick Kennedy, The Whig-Standard Should that name be William M. Feehan and it graces a state-of-the-art fireboat, and should those 14 letters, which when tied together commemorate a hero, are milled from an I-beam lifted from the rubble and ruin of the World Trade Centre 14 years […]
A Ride to Remember
LI herald.com – August 06, 2015 by Andrew Hackmack Right on schedule, Michele Walsh Myers pulled up to the Seaford 9/11 Memorial on two wheels last Saturday afternoon. What she wasn’t expecting was everything that followed. Myers, 48, a Seaford native who now lives in Rochester, completed a 450-mile bicycle trip, called the Ride to […]
3 Injured in Great Kills House Fire
SI Advance – August 06, 2015 by Ryan Lavis STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Two civilians and a firefighter were injured when a fire broke out in a house in Great Kills Wednesday afternoon, an FDNY spokesman said. FDNY respond to a fire at 270 Maybury Ave. in Great Kills on Wednesday. (Google map) Firefighters responded […]
