Friends, family, and community members honor the late Richie Sarnes, Jr., a beloved Tottenville Santa Claus and FDNY mechanic ...

James “Jimmy” Riches, an FDNY deputy chief who spent months at Ground Zero in a recovery effort to find his firefighter son’s body after the World Trade Center attacks, died from a Sept. 11-related ...

The Big Apple firefighter’s union is steaming mad over the sudden discovery of 68 boxes of Ground Zero health data following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks ...

A Ground Zero FDNY hero who died from a 9/11 illness was memorialized as an “inspiration” to his colleagues at his emotional funeral in Brooklyn on Monday. Former Deputy Chief James “Jim” Riches Sr., ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Members of the FDNY and union leaders held an emergency rally in Manhattan on Monday afternoon over the discovery of previously undisclosed records about ground zero. They are ...

James Riches, the former New York City deputy fire chief and a national spokesman for families who lost loved ones on 9/11, became the latest firefighter to die from an illness related to the attack.

The union representing FDNY firefighters is demanding answers after City Hall officials discovered 68 boxes of information on the dangers of Sept. 11 toxins despite claiming for years they couldn’t ...

FDNY fire marshals are working to determine what caused a raging five-alarm fire that tore through four adjoining homes in Richmond Hill on Monday night.

James “Jim” Riches, a former New York City Fire Department deputy chief, died on Thanksgiving Day at age 74 from illnesses linked to toxic exposure at Ground Zero, 24 years after the attacks claimed ...

A Ground Zero FDNY hero who died from a 9/11 illness was memorialized as an “inspiration” to his colleagues at his emotional funeral in Brooklyn on Monday. Former Deputy Chief James “Jim” Riches Sr., ...

FDNY firefighters demand answers on newfound documents detailing toxic dust after 9/11 The dust that first responders were breathing in for hours, day after day, has already been blamed for 9,000 ...