The FDNY has a rookie in charge of the Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks show. Joe Meyers, chief inspector of the FDNY’s explosives unit, has been with the department for seven years, and… ...

For 18 years, he’s been having a blast. Every Fourth of July, Jim Lauer, chief inspector of the FDNY explosives unit, can be found at the same place: inside an East River command center overs… ...

FDNY Explosives Unit Earns an A. The implosion of an 11-story building on Governor’s Island on June 9 was accomplished with just 364 pounds of dynamite, with seven fire prevention inspectors ...

The FDNY’s 11-year-old robotics unit has shown that mechanical firefighters can be a valuable part of New York’s Bravest — and is now teaching that to others.

A U.S. Navy salvage dive unit met up with FDNY firefighters for a demonstrative dive training mission at the USS Intrepid in Manhattan's Hudson River to share latest information, technologies.

The FDNY busted a Brooklyn business owner for running an illegal fireworks operation out of a Flatbush warehouse this week, confiscating illegal fireworks worth about $250,000 just before Independence ...

Students at Scholars Academy in Queens witnessed the future of firefighting Thursday when the FDNY Robotics Unit rolled in with a high-tech demonstration. The Rockaway Park school celebrates STEM ...

FDNY Explosives Unit Earns an A. The implosion of an 11-story building on Governor’s Island on June 9 was accomplished with just 364 pounds of dynamite, with seven fire prevention inspectors ...