By DENIS SLATTERY and ANNA SANDERS | NEW YORK DAILY NEWS | JUN 21, 2019 | 5:39 PM (Monaster, Tom) ALBANY — City workers with illnesses linked to Sept.11 could soon see their right to unlimited sick leave enshrined into law. State legislators gave final approval early Friday to a bill that would grant all city employees suffering from 9/11-related […]
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — The FDNY is out with its annual “Calendar of Heroes,” featuring some of New York’s bravest and some of their furry companions. Some of the stars of the calendar stopped by to talk more about the FDNY Foundation and its partnership with Animal Care Centers of NYC. Read More
Jon Stewart (R), the former host of ‘The Daily Show,’ talks with former NYPD Bomb Squad Detective Louis Alvarez (L) before a House Judiciary Committee. Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock It’s been four years since he stepped away from “The Daily Show,” but Jon Stewart is showing that he can still have an effect on national political matters. Stewart […]
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Amateur cell phone video captures smoke from Manhattan high-rise rooftop after helicopter crash-landing Authorities say the pilot was killed when a helicopter crash-landed on the roof of a midtown Manhattan skyscraper; Bill Hemmer reports. The streets of Midtown Manhattan were filled with fire trucks, police cars and other emergency vehicles Monday […]
By Eyewitness News Thursday, May 23, 2019 3:52PM UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) — Police have arrested a teenager in the assault of an off-duty firefighter on the Upper East Side last weekend. Damir Johnson, 17, is facing a charge of second-degree assault. He was greeted by a line of grim faced firefighters who stared him […]
The following is via Fox News: A white firefighter has sued the FDNY after claiming he was barred from participating in a color guard ceremony honoring deceased members of the Vulcan Society — a fraternal organization of black firefighters Lt. Daniel McWilliams has also sued the Vulcan Society after alleging that he was removed from his […]
By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted May 14, 2019 4:08 PM CDT FDNY firefighter Scott Hickey, left, and a fellow firefighter who did not give his name, sit in a fire truck parked in New York’s Times Square as a crowd gathers in reaction to the news of Osama Bin Laden’s… (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg) (NEWSER) – He’s […]
Watch the latest video at foxnews.com The decorated Navy SEAL rejected by the FDNY — for being six months and 25 days too old — has received invitations across the country to work for other fire departments. Firefighters from more than a dozen departments nationwide have told Shaun Donovan, who is still fighting to join the FDNY, […]
On May 7, 2019, Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro appointed two veteran EMS Chiefs to the top ranks in the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services – Lillian Bonsignore as Chief of EMS and Alvin Suriel as Assistant Chief of EMS. Chief Bonsignore, a 28-year veteran who most recently served as Chief of EMS Academy, will […]
posted Apr 18, 4:39 PM Christopher Slutman was a 15-year-member of the Fire Department of the City of New York. By Joseph Ostapiuk | jostapiuk@siadvance.com STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Funeral arrangements for a firefighter who died while serving in the U.S. Marine Corps in Afghanistan on April 8 were announced Thursday by the FDNY. Christopher A. […]
