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      On November 28, firefighters responded to a collapse at a car dealership in Staten Island, New York. The incident occurred in a single story 300 x 300 structure. Fire Department of New York (FDNY) Engine 154 reported a roof collapse with one person trapped at a car dealership under demolition at 0826 hours. At 0832 hours, Battalion […]

SI Advance – December 03, 2014 by Kristin F. Dalton STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Firefighters who pulled a 73-year-old woman out of a burning apartment building in New Springville battled thick black smoke, zero visibility and shooting flames in order to save the woman’s life. With numerous emergency units already at a fatal roof collapse […]

SI Advance – December 02, 2014 by Kristin F. Dalton STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — On Dec. 2, 2007, an Oakwood FDNY marshal was executed in his sleep with his own service weapon, while his two young daughters — ages 5 and 6 — slept in the next room. Tuesday marks seven years from the day […]

NY Daily News – December 03, 2014 by Juan Gonzalez Mayor de Blasio has finally taken the city’s problem-plagued 911 system overhaul out of the hands of private consultants and shifted its management in-house, the Daily News has learned. Over the past few weeks, de Blasio’s aides have renegotiated and sharply cut the scope of […]

SI Advance – December 02, 2014 by Kristin F. Dalton STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — On Dec. 2, 2007, an Oakwood FDNY marshal was executed in his sleep with his own service weapon, while his two young daughters — ages 5 and 6 — slept in the next room. Tuesday marks seven years from the day […]

Newsday – December 01, 2014 by JOHN ASBURY FBI agents and Port Authority officials cleared an American Airlines flight that landed Sunday at Kennedy Airport after an unfounded report of a bomb aboard the jet. The FDNY responded to the reported bomb threat as the plane from Barcelona landed about noon at Kennedy. American Airlines […]

NY Daily News – November 30, 2014 by Caitlin Nolan, Rocco Parascandola, Barry Paddock Two people were critically injured in separate fires in Harlem and Queens Saturday morning. The earlier blaze broke out about 8:05 a.m. in the basement of the six-story building at W. 151st St. and Broadway, officials said. The injured man, believed […]

Chief Leader – November 25, 2014 by SARAH DORSEY Many U.S. firefighters aren’t sleeping as well as their counterparts outside the firehouse—and their higher rates of car accidents and other health problems may be related, according to a new study. Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston surveyed almost 7,000 firefighters nationwide, most of […]

Chief Leader – November 25, 2014 by SARAH DORSEY Cops aren’t the only ones mad as hell about the paltry disability benefits those hired over the past five years have been saddled with—firefighters say they’re not going to take it anymore either. Uniformed Firefighters Association President Stephen J. Cassidy, standing in front of City Hall […]

Newsday – November 24, 2014 by Dan Janison Steve Cassidy, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association of Greater New York, says his union’s push to improve disability benefits for newer members is unrelated to talks toward an overdue contract settlement with the city. Rather, Cassidy said, it’s prompted by a recent resumption of FDNY hiring […]