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

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 man killed in an apartment fire in Bay Ridge on Sunday has been identified as Gregory Fernandez, a 37-year-old Navy veteran ...

Flames shot out of a third-story window early Sunday morning at an apartment building at 510 80th St. in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

(Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News; FDNY ... park in front of fire hydrants. “They don’t have to do it definitely, because they affect the fast response for the department,” she ...

NEW YORK -- A fire in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn turned deadly overnight, and the FDNY says parked cars were blocking two of the closest hydrants. The fire broke out shortly after 3:30 a.m. Sunday on the ...

Brooklyn is rallying behind a local FDNY dispatcher who tragically lost his home in a fire. A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to support FDNY Brooklyn Dispatcher 290 and Training Unit Instructor ...

A 37-year-old man was killed and a woman and toddler critically hurt when a fire ripped through their Brooklyn apartment building early Sunday — and FDNY officials say two SUVs parked at fire hydrants ...

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