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Santa and local firefighters visit Bayside children’s hospital to spread holiday joy
By Suzanne Monteverd A group of big-hearted firefighters from a firehouse based in Bayside spread some major holiday cheer to children in the community last week. Members of Engine Company 320 and Ladder Company 167 showed up at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children in Bayside on Thursday, Dec. 15, with dozens of toys for the kids eagerly awaiting their arrival inside. Larger-than-life dogs […]
Are your Christmas decorations a fire hazard? Tips from FDNY
Are your Christmas decorations a fire hazard? Tips from FDNY The FDNY shares some tips for decorating safely. (Yui Mok/PA via AP) By Irene Spezzamonte | ispezzamonte@siadvance.com Email the author on December 05, 2016 at 9:24 AM, updated December 05, 2016 at 9:25 AM STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Getting ready to put up those lights […]
FDNY launches proactive recruiting campaign
MIKA BASSON | 11/24/2016, midnight The FDNY has set out on a proactive mission to recruit more firefighters and EMTs in an active November campaign to encourage young people to join the Fire Department. “There’s a very aggressive campaign that the Fire Department is running at this moment in all five boroughs in which you […]
St. Patrick’s Cathedral to host ceremony honoring firefighters who died on or due to 9/11
BY THOMAS TRACY NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Thursday, September 8, 2016, 3:11 PM They want to remember their loved ones in the company of loved ones. Scores of FDNY families who lost relatives to the 9/11 attack will flock to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown this Saturday as the department marks the 15th anniversary of the […]
9/11 firefighters on how they — and America — have changed
POSTED 10:58 AM, SEPTEMBER 7, 2016, BY CNN WIRE Not long ago, retired New York City firefighter James Hanlon and his five-year-old daughter were hanging out in the family garage. The girl spotted an unfamiliar box containing Hanlon’s dusty, banged up old firefighter’s helmet. “Dada, what’s that?” she asked. Hanlon’s mind raced back 15 […]
As Towers Burned, a Hero in Red Bandanna Saved Lives
By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, Newser Staff (NEWSER) – His father gave him a red bandanna when he was 6, and Welles Crowther carried one every day after, tucked in his back pocket or, when playing lacrosse or hockey, under his helmet. And so it was on Sept. 11, 2001, when the 24-year-old Boston College graduate—an […]
FDNY CHAPLAIN KILLED ON 9/11 HONORED DURING REMEMBRANCE WALK
Hundreds gathered Sunday to remember FDNY Chaplain Father Mychal Judge. Judge died on September 11th fifteen years ago. The Franciscan priest was giving the last rites to a firefighter when one of the towers collapsed and Father Mychal was killed by falling debris. He had the ability to bond with anyone at any level […]
Mets’ David Wright meets with FDNY Engine 39 & Ladder 16
By Ryan Hatch | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com on September 03, 2016 NEW YORK — Mets slugger David Wright met with a New York City fire department on Friday as part of the team’s annual tradition of meeting with firehouses for the 9/11 anniversary. Wright, who’s out for the year after undergoing neck surgery in June, met […]
Beloved Fire Department Chaplain Who Died on 9/11 Honored with Annual Walk: ‘He Helped Me Understand Life Was Worth Living’
BY DIANE HERBST @DianeHerbst 08/29/2016 AT 03:45 PM EDT In 1986, NYPD Detective Steven McDonald was shot and left paralyzed from the neck down. While he was in the hospital, he received a visit from Father Mychal Judge, who kneeled beside him and prayed in his ear.”And I felt so close to God,” McDonald tells […]
