When Rizzi receives her certificate, her uncle, retired FDNY Battalion Chief Cecil Southern, will be cheering her on, she said. “I always looked up to him and wanted to be a firefighter like him ...

Published Feb. 18, 2023. Updated April 17, 2023, 9:10 a.m. ET. ... Joseph Pfeifer was part of the first FDNY battalion to enter the North Tower on 9/11. grab ...

JOHN J. SALKA JR., who is a Firehouse contributing editor, retired as a battalion chief with FDNY, serving as commander of the 18th battalion in the Bronx.Salka has instructed at several FDNY ...

FDNY Battalion Chief Jim McGlynn speaks with Jeff Glor about his service. ... But he continued serving for 18 years after 9/11. "It's tough to say goodbye," he said. McGlynn's last day is Monday.

The FDNY’s longest serving firefighter, Battalion Chief Don Hayde, came to work on his final shift Sunday wearing heavy-duty black work boots as if it was just another day in his 41 years on the ...

The FDNY says the fire broke out just before 11 a.m. on the fourth floor of a Watson Avenue ... several occupants calling for help from the inside,” said FDNY Battalion 18 Chief Peter ...

July 14 -- Retired FDNY Battalion Chief Robert Miuccio, a Ground Zero hero famed for walking through burning buildings with a cigar in his mouth instead of an air mask, died Thursday of 9/11 ...

Chris Scalone, of Port Jefferson Station, was one of FDNY’s longest-serving battalion chiefs, ... Their only child, Tiffany, was 18 in 2008 when she succumbed to a birth condition, ...