The FDNY received a call of a civilian trapped in an elevator which was stuck in a blind shaft at the College Point Cement ...
NEW YORK (WABC) -- The FDNY cut through a window on the 68th floor of One World Trade to rescue two workers trapped on a scaffold dangling from the building Wednesday afternoon. The window washers ...
A teenager horsing around with a friend in Queens was impaled when he stumbled into a wrought iron fence — and then freed by a quick-thinking group of New York’s bravest before being rushed to the ...
A water rescue crew with the FDNY hauled a struggling person out of the East River after powerful currents pinned them against the base of the Roosevelt Island Bridge late Wednesday night, dramatic ...
For every selfish motorist who blocks a fire hydrant. there’s a plucky FDNY dispatcher whose institutional knowledge of New York City’s neighborhoods saves the day. Such was the case last week when a ...
ROCKAWAY BEACH, Queens (PIX11) — The FDNY is warning individuals to only swim in areas where lifeguards are actively on duty after a rescue was conducted at Rockaway Beach on the Fourth of July. FDNY ...
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-old ...
Firefighters, family members and friends gathered Thursday at Rescue Company 2 in Crown Heights to honor the seven firefighters from the company who were killed during the September 11, 2001 attacks ...
NEW YORK -- The FDNY put a rarely used maneuver into action to save a woman who was hanging from a 16th-floor window during a high-rise fire in Manhattan. The fire was reported Tuesday near Lenox ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A firefighter who ran into a burning, smoke-filled home grabbed a baby from a bunk bed and passed the child through a basement window to a fellow firefighter in a dramatic ...