NY Daily News – March 04, 2015 by Lisa L. Colangelo Michael McCauley had only been a firefighter for a few months when he saved a life — and he didn’t even have to run into a burning building to do it. The 26-year-old Staten Island resident was told in 2013 that he was a […]
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Explosion Rocks Columbia University, Injuring 5 People
NY Daily News – March 04, 2015 by Laura Bult, Ryan Sit, Joseph Stepansky, Denis Slattery A fire and explosion rocked a building just steps from Columbia University late Tuesday, injuring five people and forcing the evacuation of two Barnard College dorms, authorities and witnesses said. The two-alarm blaze was reported around 11:30 p.m. in […]
Fire truck sirens made me lose my hearing: Ex-FDNY firefighter
By Lia Eustachewich March 3, 2015 | 10:11am A former FDNY firefighter is suing several fire truck manufacturers for $150,000, claiming he’s suffered permanent, “irreversible” hearing loss because the sirens in the engines he rode were too loud. Curtis O’Steen, who served from 1966 to 1981, said the companies sold trucks and engines that […]
Lawmakers Push for Better Disability Pensions for Cops and Firefighters
NY Post – March 03, 2015 by Carl Campanile State lawmakers are pushing legislation again to restore more generous disability pensions to recently hired cops and firefighters — drawing fire from a budget watchdog who warned the cost would run into tens of millions of dollars. Nearly all uniformed officers hired before 2009 are eligible […]
Bloomberg Given Most of Blame, But Many 911-System Culprits Are Cited
Chief Leader – March 03, 2015 by SARAH DORSEY Mayor Michael Bloomberg managed his 911-system overhaul so poorly that it was sheer luck that contractors merely overbilled the city by hundreds of millions of dollars and didn’t directly steal funds. Or so Department of Investigation Commissioner Mark G. Peters claimed at a City Council hearing […]
Elderly Brooklyn Woman Perishes in Fire Started By Faulty Electrical Wiring
The Wall Street Journal – March 03, 2015 by Joe Jackson An elderly Brooklyn woman died Sunday night after a fire started by faulty electrical wiring engulfed her home, officials said. Kathryn Johnson, who was 89 years old and lived in the borough’s Bay Ridge section, was pronounced dead on arrival at Lutheran Medical Center […]
Quick-Thinking Man Survives being Run Over by Subway Train
NY Post – February 27, 2015 by Natasha Velez, Rebecca Harshbarger and Amber Sutherland He showed good street smarts for a guy from rural Indiana. Chris Marshall faced every commuter’s nightmare when he fell on the subway tracks as a train was barreling into the station — but his split second decision to roll into […]
Man Left Critically Injured when Fire Tears through Lower East Side Apartment
NY Daily News – February 27, 2015 by Joseph Stepansky A man was critically injured when a fire tore through a Lower East Side apartment on Wednesday, authorities said. The man, who was in his 50s, was rushed from the burning apartment on E. 13 St. at Ave. C around 2:50 p.m., a Fire Department […]
NYC Council Criticizes Long-Awaited, $2 Billion 911 System
The Wall Street Journal – February 26, 2015 by Mara Gay New York City council members sharply criticized Wednesday the remaking of the city’s 911 system, a $2 billion-plus, more-than-decade-long project that remains incomplete. A report by the city’s Department of Investigation this month outlined what it called “persistent mismanagement” of the 911 system overhaul […]
Council Members Slam de Blasio Administration for Mismanagement of City’s 911 System
NY Daily News – February 26, 2015 by Erin Durkin City Council members charged on Wednesday that the de Blasio administration isn’t doing enough to overhaul the city’s troubled 911 system after an investigation found the project was badly mismanaged for years. The de Blasio administration halted work after the Department of Investigation found that […]
