Community leaders, elected officials and high-ranking FDNY Brass all attended the “Community Menorah Event” held the first night of Chanukah in Boro Park. The event was held at the headquarters of FDNY Engine 2828 and Ladder 148. Leaders of many major Jewish organizations were at the event, which was graced with the presence of FDNY […]
NY Daily News – December 15, 2017 by ROCCO PARASCANDOLA JOHN ANNESE A bleeding man staggered, critically injured, to a Bronx firehouse Wednesday afternoon. The 21-year-old victim, whose name was not released, walked up to the FDNY Engine 68-Ladder 49 firehouse on Ogden Ave. at W. 167th St. in Highbridge, just before 2:50 p.m., police […]
NY 1 – December 14, 2017 by Gene Apodaca The brother of William Tolley, who died earlier this year battling a blaze in Queens, is channeling his pain into a plan to help others. NY1’s Gene Apodaca sat down with him to talk about his new foundation in his brother’s name. The relationship Robert Tolley […]
WABC – December 13, 2017 by Danielle Leigh NEW YORK (WABC) — Security experts called the December 11, botched suicide bombing inside a subway passageway near Times Square a “game changer” in the fight against terror on U.S. soil. The attack during the Monday morning commute marked what experts called a “big first” in the […]
Mayor de Blasio says he believes in redemption and defends his decision allowing the son of former commissioner Salvatore Cassano to become a firefighter. (JEFFERSON SIEGEL/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) BYJILLIAN JORGENSEN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, December 12, 2017, 6:17 PM Despite mounting calls for him to change course, Mayor de Blasio defended allowing […]
Tweet email Joseph Cassano is about to become a firefighter after quiting the FDNY in 2013 after posting racist and anti-Semitic tweets. (@JCASSANO15) BYJILLIAN JORGENSEN NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, December 11, 2017, 4:25 PM City officials ripped the de Blasio administration and the FDNY for its plans to make a firefighter out of an […]
KFVS12 News & Weather Cape Girardeau, Carbondale, Poplar Bluff (RNN) – A suspect is in custody following an attempted terrorist attack in the subway station under the Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan on Monday. Four people were injured, including the suspect, 27-year-old Akayed Ullah, according to the New York Fire Department. All injuries […]
Dec. 06–A small track fire at Penn Station Wednesday morning was caused by debris, Amtrak said. A call came in at about 9:50 a.m. about the fire on Amtrak’s Track 14, and it was put out shortly after, the FDNY said. No injuries were reported. Read More
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Firefighters are still on the scene of a four-alarm fire that broke out early Thursday morning in Brooklyn. The fire is believed to have started around 5:15 a.m. in a hardware store at the ground level of a four-story building on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Read More
NBC 4 New York A man looks at an apartment building where a fire killed one person Sunday morning. An apartment fire in Queens and a high-rise fire in Manhattan on Sunday left two people dead, including a boy, and injured at least eight people, fire officials say. Thomas Curly, 12, was killed in the […]
