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

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 of the FDNY, will be promoted to deputy chief during a ceremony on ...

"There’s no doubt that the cars that were parked on the hydrants have slowed down our members from engaging in firefighting tactics,” said FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker said. A 37-year-old ...

we had to pull our members out of the building and got to an exterior fire attack," FDNY Chief of Operations Kevin Woods said. Four firefighters suffered minor injuries. Nearly 180 members of the ...

It soon engulfed the entire building – which has been “vacant for many years” – and spread to its neighbors on the left and right, according to FDNY Chief of Operations Kevin Woods.

“We had heavy fire on all five floors of this building and through the roof,” FDNY Chief of Fire Operations Kevin Woods said on X, adding that the building “had been vacant for many years.

(Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News) “They were able to engage, but for two parked cars on hydrants,” FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker told reporters Sunday. ‘I’m begging New Yorkers ...

BAY RIDGE, Brooklyn (PIX11) – The FDNY has called out the drivers of two cars parked near fire hydrants, saying they slowed down the agency’s response to a deadly fire in Brooklyn early Sunday ...