NY Daily News – August 30, 2016 by Ginger Adams Otis Sen. Charles Schumer wants to create a national health registry to track cancer among firefighters. The registry, the first of its type ever proposed, would help doctors track and treat firefighters battling cancer, Schumer said Sunday at a Manhattan press conference. Numerous studies have […]
She’s the hero New York needs. Bella, a 6-year-old teacup Yorkshire terrier, stole the show on Thursday afternoon when she and her comrades at FDNY Engine 8/Ladder 2/Battalion 8 responded to a burning car in a Midtown garage. Bella has been hanging around Engine 8, located on East 51st Street between Third and Lexington avenues, for most […]
Two police officers and a FDNY lieutenant saved a woman from a fire that engulfed a three-story Springfield Gardens residence, according to the FDNY. The Fire Department started receiving calls at 11:08 a.m. Monday about a fire on the first floor of the building at 140-36 169th St. NYPD officers Rob Quattrock and Greg Levine […]
A BMW parked in the garage of the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown burst into flames Thursday, destroying four cars around it, fire officials said. The vehicle, parked three levels below grade of the 53-story hotel on 7th Avenue and 53rd Street, went ablaze at around 12:30 p.m., sending more than 50 firefighters to the scene. […]
So instead of junking it, the department is donating the award-winning vehicle to the FDNY’s Family Assistance Unit , Fire Chief John McLoughlin said. A non-profit can’t donate items to another non-profit, so the pumper was put up for auction. The Demarest department bid on the truck and bought it for $8,600. “It was well past […]
Russo’s on the Bay, May 12, 2016 Welcome FDNY Awardees Ceremony Photo’s
After Stephen Siller died serving as a firefighter during the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, his family started a traveling exhibition so people wouldn’t forget the people who died that day. And the 9/11 Never Forget exhibit was not alone as it made its way down to the Elkhart County 4-H Fair late Tuesday […]
