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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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