Firefighters discovered the child suffering from severe smoke inhalation and brought her up to the roof as thick smoke filling the hallways initially blocked their exit.

Officials said the fire started shortly after 12 p.m. on Friday on the third floor of the complex, then spread to the fourth and fifth floors.

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 ...

Firefighters battled a fire that raged in a Harlem apartment building Wednesday night. Crews encountered heavy fire conditions in the five-story building about 9 p.m. They called for additional ...

The Syracuse Academy of Science High School has been cited once again for code violations related to the tampering of a ...

The gas company worked through the day to secure the ... They had to prevent it from spreading and they also had to deal with the weather. FDNY cautions against space heaters in cold weather ...

Balancing precariously on the edge of a church organist’s stool, it is a challenge to read the electricity meter installed nine ... called Data Communications Company (DCC) servers connected ...

That the flaming house was on a dead-end street complicated the operation, given the frozen hydrants, according to the FDNY. Early Wednesday morning, the FDNY responded to calls for a fire at 1005 ...

A fire broke out in East Flatbush on E. 46th Street around 11 a.m. Monday morning, according to the FDNY. More than 100 emergency personnel responded to the scene. The heavy smoke impacting ...

UK energy regulator Ofgem has urged more than half a million owners of a type of 1980s electricity meter to upgrade or face being left without heating. It comes as independent regulator Ofgem and ...