Mark Martinez for Rescue 4 said during the press conference. The boy was surprisingly calm during the ordeal, which made the FDNY’s job easier, fire officials said. An FDNY firefighter shows the ...

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

Mark Martinez for Rescue 4 said during the press conference. The boy was surprisingly calm during the ordeal, which made the FDNY’s job easier, fire officials said. Leading up to the impalement ...

Mark Martinez of FDNY Rescue 4 rescued a 15-year-ol boy who was impaled on a fence in Queens. (Kerry Burke/NYDN) The 15-year-old boy was heading home from school, and roughhousing with a friend on ...

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

and the FDNY Foundation are proud to invite all first responders to the 12th Annual FDNY Search & Rescue Field Medicine Symposium (SRFM) taking place April 24-27, 2025 at the world-renowned FDNY ...

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

The teen, with the fence still impaled in his leg, was transported to a hospital where the wrought iron posts were removed, FDNY officers said. A teenager horsing around with a friend in Queens ...

Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons will be promoted to deputy chief on Friday, becoming the first woman in the department to ...

Firefighter Jason Shoemaker of FDNY Rescue 4 used a bandsaw to cut through three vertical bars and the horizontal top piece of the fence — preventing further injury by carefully keeping the sections ...

RIDGEWOOD, Queens (WABC) -- When a bizarre accident in Queens left a teenager impaled by a fence, a swift-acting FDNY rescue team helped save his life. Impaled on a wrought iron fence, a 15-year ...