NY Daily News – July 22, 2014 by Meredith Engel As a New York City firefighter, Blaise DelBianco was used to daily tests of his strength. But his biggest challenge came once he hung up his hat for good. Now-retired DelBianco, 61, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2011. It was metastatic — meaning it […]
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Hoarders Pose Special Problems For Firefighters Coping With Low Visibility
NY Times – July 15, 2014 by SARAH DORSEY Any firefighter who’s been around a few years has encountered a few of them: homes with front doors partly blocked by piles of belongings, with curtains drawn to hide the clutter inside. In New York, firefighters know the homes of hoarders as Collyer’s mansions, after two […]
Very Painful Loss
NY Daily News – July 11, 2014 So devastated was Nanette Ambelas by the death of her husband, FDNY Lt. Gordon Matthew Ambelas, she understandably could not read his eulogy in front of the thousands of mourners, including 6,000 of the Bravest, assembled at Thursday’s funeral. A friend did the honors, carrying a hero to […]
Thousands Expected at Lt. Ambelas Funeral
NEW YORK — Thousands of people are expected to attend the funeral of a New York City firefighter killed in a burning, cluttered apartment at a high-rise public housing building. Firefighters will salute Lt. Gordon “Matt” Ambelas’ (am-BEHL’-ihs) as he’s transported Thursday in a caisson during the procession between a Staten Island funeral home and […]
Firefighters, Family Attend Wake for FDNY Lieutenant Who Died in Brooklyn Blaze
NY Daily News – July 09, 2014 by Barry Paddock, Bill Hutchinson With salutes and heavy hearts, New York’s Bravest began the solemn ritual Tuesday of mourning Lt. Gordon Matthew Ambelas, the “best of the best” who was killed in a ferocious Brooklyn blaze. Hundreds of firefighters in their dress blue uniforms jammed the Casey […]
Known for Rescues, a Firefighter Dies in a Brooklyn Blaze- NY Times
After the call came in — a fire licking the curtains in a 19th-floor bedroom window, smoke pouring into the night — the fire ladder truck from nearby Hooper Street was the first to arrive on Saturday at the Brooklyn high-rise. Out jumped Lt. Gordon Matthew Ambelas, a 14-year veteran, leading a team of four […]
FDNY Firefighters & EMTs To Begin Carrying Intranasal Naloxone On All Fire Engines & FDNY Ambulances
Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro today announced that beginning July 1, 2014, more than 2,000 FDNY Firefighters and Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) will now be capable of administering intranasal Naloxone – a life-saving medication used to treat patients suffering from the effects of an overdose of heroin or prescription opioid drug use. They will be […]
Crews Test Emergency Plan, Procedures With Drill at LaGuardia Airport- ufanyc.org
Crews Test Emergency Plan, Procedures With Drill at LaGuardia Airport CBS 2 – June 22, 2014 NEW YORK(CBSNewYork) — If you were traveling near LaGuardia Airport on Saturday, you may have noticed something that looked like smoke and a swarm of emergency vehicles. But as CBS 2′s Andrea Grymes reported, it was all just a […]
1 Seriously Hurt in Manhattan High Rise Fire – Uniformed Firefighters
Associated Press – June 18, 2014 NEW YORK — One person is hospitalized with serious injuries after a fire at a Manhattan residential high rise. The FDNY says the fire occurred around 11:45 a.m. Tuesday on the 34th floor of Two WorldWide Plaza at 50th Street and 8th Avenue. Firefighters brought the fire under control […]
Promotion day Thursday for 83 members of the FDNY | 7online.com
NEW YORK (WABC) — It’s promotion day for New York City’s Bravest on Thursday. Eighty-three members of the FDNY moved up in rank during a ceremony at the Christian Cultural Center in East New York, Brooklyn, at 11 a.m. The members make up more than 1,200 years of experience with the department. Seventeen captains were […]
