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 ...

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

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Borough President Vito Fossella and District Attorney Michael McMahon honored four Staten Island ...

Tom Shand and Michael Wilbur explain why pumpers that operate out of two Pennsylvania departments exemplify the importance of ...

Saskatchewan’s 24th lieutenant-governor has been formally installed at the legislative building. Bernadette McIntyre was celebrated in an official ceremony on Friday as she takes on her new role ...

Reynoldsburg police sergeants and lieutenants will receive a total 12.3% over the next three years — just like the city's patrol officers and dispatchers — after approval of their union's collective ...

Lieutenant Joseph DiBernado ultimately passed away from his injuries in 2011. Hours after the Bronx blaze, Firefighter Richard Sclafani died fighting a two-alarm fire in Brooklyn. “I know the losses ...

An NYPD lieutenant was arrested and indicted Wednesday for allegedly billing $64,000 in overtime for his commute to work, time at home and hours moonlighting in private security. At a brief ...

They had to prevent it from spreading and they also had to deal with the weather. FDNY cautions against space heaters in cold weather FDNY says two of the hydrants on the block were frozen.

That the flaming house was on a dead-end street complicated the operation, given the frozen hydrants, according to the FDNY. Early Wednesday ... get water to the first engine.