An FDNY officer who was told by her grandfather that “women shouldn’t be firefighters” is poised to become the highest-ranked ...

Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons — a 24-year veteran who joined the FDNY a few months before 9/11—  was named Deputy Chief ...

Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons will be promoted to deputy chief on Friday, becoming the first woman in the department to ...

Nine people were hurt – including three firefighters — when a massive blaze ripped through a Brooklyn home Friday morning, ...

In September of last year, the FDNY confirmed that there were 370 members of the service that had died in the years following the al Qaeda attack, more than the 343 firefighters that died on 9/11.

(FDNY) Firefighters were able to get the blaze under control an hour later. Restaurant Mussels & More is located on the ground floor of the building. A third-floor resident, awakened by the fire ...

Binghamton firefighter John "JR" Gaudet died in the line of duty. Here's how many other firefighters have died in New York.

The fire had spread to the second floor and the cockloft, the space between the roof and ceiling, according to the FDNY. Firefighters cut multiple holes in the roof of the Russian restaurant to ...

Staff at the Admiral Casino had said that emergency services were called due to a blaze on the exterior of the business.

Volunteer fire departments are struggling with rising equipment costs, relying on donations to ensure firefighters have the ...

The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers: firefighters. The freeze comes at a critical time, when fire ...