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.

(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 ...

A building fire left a person dead and two others hurt early Sunday morning in Bay Ridge, according to officials. It happened around 3:30 a.m. on the third floor of the building on 80th Street.

FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker said during a press conference two of the closest fire hydrants were blocked by parked cars, making it harder for firefighters to handle the flames shooting out of ...

The fire department says the injured individuals were hospitalized. One of the victims is in critical condition. Fire marshals are working to determine the cause.