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FDNY To Drivers: Please Stop Parking At Hydrants
Parking scofflaws turn a fire fatal. The public could help, if the Council would pass a bill creating citizen enforcement.
After fatal NYC fire, FDNY warns public against blocking hydrants
Flames shot out of a third-story window early Sunday morning at an apartment building at 510 80th St. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
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FDNY Says Blocked Hydrants Hampered Efforts at Fatal Fire
"There’s no doubt that the cars that were parked on the hydrants have slowed down our members from engaging in firefighting ...
FDNY loses another member to 9/11-related illness, firefighter orgs say
Thomas Dunn, a former member of Engine Company 234 in Brooklyn, died Saturday of sicknesses picked up during the massive ...
Brooklyn apartment fire kills man, SUVs parked at hydrants delay FDNY
A 37-year-old man was killed and a woman and toddler critically hurt when a fire ripped through their Brooklyn apartment ...
Deaths of 2 FDNY members from Staten Island reclassified as 9/11-related deaths, union says
"Their sacrifice at Ground Zero will never be forgotten," the Uniformed Firefighters Association said in a post on X.
Ex-FDNY chief guilty of creating ‘VIP lane’ to fast-track inspections in $200K pay-to-play bribery scheme
Anthony Saccovino, 59, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a bribery conspiracy charge in Manhattan federal court as part of a plea ...
Ex-FDNY fire prevention chief pleads guilty to taking bribes to fast-track inspections in NYC
Anthony Saccavino, 59, the former head of the Bureau of Fire Prevention from 2021 to 2023, admitted taking money to give ...
FDNY: Firefighter injured fighting house fire on Staten Island
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y — A firefighter suffered minor injuries in a house fire in Annadale late on Wednesday night, according to ...
Former FDNY chief pleads guilty to conspiring to receive bribes to speed up building inspections
Saccavino, 59, is accused of expediting fire inspections for building owners who could pay up in a scheme that saw him and ...
FDNY firefighters rescue teen who was impaled by wrought iron fence in Queens
Firefighters jumped into action to rescue a teen boy’s life after he was impaled by a wrought iron fence while horsing around ...