For Release April 28, 2015 Police-Fire Coalition May 6 “March For Equality” Demands Equal Disability Pension Benefits For Officers And Firefighters Hundreds of New York City police officers and firefighters will join forces May 6 in a rally at Battery Park, a march up Broadway’s “Canyon of Heroes” and a press conference on the City […]
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Cellphone Fire Prompts School Evacuation
NY Post – April 28, 2015 by Antonio Antenucci and Natasha Velez Students of a Queens high school were evacuated and the NYPD bomb squad called in after a cellphone started a fire in a locker, authorities said.Approximately 30 firefighters, along with the NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit and bomb squad, responded to Bayside High School […]
9/11 Illnesses Common Among EMS Workers
Chief Leader – April 28, 2015 by SARAH DORSEY Emergency Medical Service workers who responded to the Sept. 11 attacks and their aftermath have higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder and other illnesses than their unexposed co-workers, FDNY and other medical researchers announced. The study, released days after Federal lawmakers launched their push to renew […]
N.Y.’s Bravehearts: Happy 150th Birthday, FDNY
NY Daily News – April 26, 2015 There is no count of all the lives saved by the New York City Fire Department through its 150 years of bravery. There is a count of the lives that were lost by FDNY members as they fought to save others since the department was founded in 1865. […]
Multiple Homes without Power after Food Truck Hits Utility Pole on Staten Island
WPIX 11 – April 27, 2015 by Christopher Brito MARINERS HARBOR, N.Y. (PIX11)– A food truck crashed into a pole on Staten Island early Monday, injuring one person and taking the power out of multiple homes, according to FDNY. A call came in about 2:38 a.m. Monday of a crash on 490 Morningstar Road in […]
Firefighters Put Down All-Hands Dongan Hills Blaze
SI Advance – April 27, 2015 by Zak Koeske STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Firefighters made quick work of an all-hands fire at a Dongan Hills home Sunday afternoon. The blaze, which started around 3:35 p.m. in the rear of a two-story home on Garretson Avenue, was extinguished and under control in about 20 minutes, an […]
More Than 100 Firefighters Battle Brooklyn House Fire, FDNY Says
DNAinfo – April 24, 2015 by Aidan Gardiner BROOKLYN — More than 100 firefighters battled a fire in the basement of a Windsor Terrace home Thursday morning, officials said. The flames broke out inside 276 Windsor Terrace, near 11th Avenue, about 10:40 a.m. and filled the street with gray smoke, according to witnesses and FDNY […]
FDNY Firefighters Save Cat and Dog from Fire in Brooklyn Brownstone
NY Daily News – April 24, 2015 by Thomas Tracy A tabby named Butterscotch escaped a burning Brooklyn brownstone with all her nine lives intact thanks to firefighters who pulled the cat and a dog to safety Thursday. Butterscotch and a hound named Sonny were rescued from the blaze on Windsor Place near 11th Ave. […]
FDNY Controls Fire in Vacant Home in South Beach
SI Advance – April 23, 2015 by Mary Sharmaine STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. –- Firefighters responded to a blaze Wednesday night inside an empty home in South Beach. It was brought under control without injury. At 6:54 p.m., reports of flames coming from the basement of a vacant home within the 100 block of Olympia Boulevard […]
NY Lawmakers Lead Bipartisan Effort To Renew Zadroga Act
Western Queens Gazette – April 23, 2015 With the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act due to expire within the next 16 months, leaving thousands of World Trade Center cleanup workers midway in their recuperation, a bipartisan group of lawmakers from across the country pulled together last week to introduce a new, reauthorized, bipartisan […]
