The fire ignited and spread rapidly across a large area of brush inside the park on Wednesday, and another fire in the park ...

Parks department data shows firefighters responded to more than 400 fires in city parks between 2020 and August 2024.

In 2019, when these fires were first tracked by the FDNY, only 13 blazes were attributed to the batteries. In 2020, that number jumped to 44, FDNY officials said. As the number of lithium-ion ...

A dying Vietnam vet’s last thought before he died was why his New York City ambulance took nearly an hour to arrive, his ...

The FDNY promoted 53 firefighters on Monday, including three legacy members who lost fathers and brothers during the 9/11 attacks. The trio — Thomas Riches, Joseph Jurgens and Christopher Otten ...

The bizarre but beloved Bedford-Stuyvesant street aquarium born in the summer was wrecked during an FDNY hydrant inspection on Tuesday — but locals are already picking up the pieces. Nickel ...

So, when I was 22, I took every New York City civil service exam available. The first one to call me was FDNY Emergency Medical Service (EMS), which at the time was NYC Health + Hospital’s NYC EMS.

the FDNY said on X. The National Weather Service issued a red flag warning for New York City on Thursday, through Friday evening due to "critical fire weather conditions are expected due to strong ...

NEW YORK -- A lithium-ion battery sparked a deadly fire early Wednesday morning in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, the FDNY says. A 69-year-old grandfather was killed in the blaze, and two other family ...

A line of about 400 first responders and supporters spent Sunday morning climbing bleacher stairs in Queens to honor the FDNY firefighters who rushed into the Twin Towers on 9/11 and never ...

By 8 p.m., the FDNY said the fire had grown to two alarms and spread across approximately two acres. FDNY Brooklyn Borough Commander Joe Duggan said the fire was in an "extremely inaccessible ...