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

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

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 ...

Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons, a 24-year veteran of the FDNY, will be promoted to deputy chief during a ceremony on Friday.

A blaze that burned for over an hour in Crown Heights injured nine people, including three firefighters, according to the ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Flames shot out of a third-story window early Sunday morning at an apartment building at 510 80th St. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The fire happened just after 3:30 a.m. Firefighters hustled up the ...