An FDNY officer who was told by her grandfather that “women shouldn’t be firefighters” is poised to become the highest-ranked woman uniformed firefighter in FDNY history, the Daily News has ...

FDNY history was made at Queens College as the head of Battalion 46 in Elmhurst became the first-ever female deputy chief and the highest-ranking woman in fire operations. Battalion Chief Michele ...

The NYPD and FDNY volleyball teams clashed in a spirited showdown on Saturday, March 8, at Maspeth High School in Elmhurst in ...

Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons will be promoted to deputy chief on Friday, becoming the first woman in the department to achieve the rank and the highest-ranking woman uniformed firefighter ...

And I'm privileged to be amongst them," Fitzsimmons said. Michele Fitzsimmons makes history in the FDNY Fitzsimmons joined the FDNY in 2001. She was born into a family of firefighters; her great ...

A squatter was killed when a fire erupted Tuesday morning inside a Brooklyn building that has a troubling history of arson and ... the burnt-out home after FDNY firefighters struggled to ...

For the first time in city history, the FDNY issued a criminal summons to a vehicle owner who illegally blocked a fire ...