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My Memorial Day Plans

Tireak C. Tulloch | Posted 05.27.2012

Tireak C. Tulloch

Last year a good friend of mine told me of how she felt of me being able to go to many places in honor of my fellow veterans. I don't consider it a vacation on any level, but as a way of continuing my duty. I believe this is how many veterans of my era and previous eras feel, as well.

LOOK: Sexy Firefighters Pose For Medical Center

Posted 05.02.2012

New York's bravest are turning up the heat with the 2013 Firefighters of New York calendar featuring some of the sexiest, six-packed firefighter fella...

Family Member Of 7 Killed In Bronx Zoo Crash: 'I Don't Want To Live'

AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 04.30.2012

NEW YORK — The section of highway where an accident sent seven members of a Bronx family flying over a guardrail and plummeting to their deaths ...

Report: NYC's Fancy New $2 Billion 911 System Actually Slows Response Time

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 04.09.2012

NEW YORK — A judge has ordered New York City to release a consultant's review of its 911 system. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration has been f...

Calling Mayor Bloomberg: Release 9-1-1 Report Now

Dan Collins | Posted 04.09.2012

Dan Collins

City Hall refuses to release a report on the effectiveness of New York's revamped emergency response system. The firefighters union says the city is cooking the books when it comes to calculating response time.

Building Collapse Kills Worker, Injures Three Others

AP | Posted 04.03.2012

NEW YORK — Fire officials say a partial building collapse in New York City has killed one construction worker and injured three others. The sin...

Elevator Worker Electrocuted To Death in Midtown

Posted 03.29.2012

An elevator worker was electrocuted to death in Midtown Wednesday night, The Daily News reports. Authorities say 44-year-old Ed Bradley died after com...

Building Collapse Kills One, Injures Two

Posted 03.22.2012

A construction worker was killed and two others were injured during a building collapse in Morningside Heights Thursday morning, ABC reports. The ...

Wanted: Woman Ignites 15 Trash Can Fires In Midtown

Posted 03.20.2012

Police are searching for a woman who reportedly set at least 15 trash cans on fire in Midtown on Monday. The unidentified woman is believed to be i...

FDNY's Discrimination Against Minorities Could Cost City $128 Million

Posted 03.12.2012

New York City could have to pay upwards of $128 million in back wages to minorities who weren't hired after taking the Fire Department's entrance exam...

Steel Beams Crash 40 Stories At WTC Construction Site

Posted 02.16.2012

Steel beams crashed 40 stories at the construction site of the World Trade Center Thursday morning, crushing a flatbed truck and injuring one man. ...

After Extinguishing Subway Blaze, Firefighters Find Body

Posted 02.06.2012

A homeless man was found dead inside an abandoned room in an Upper East Side subway station Sunday, CBS reports. FDNY responded to a 911 call at a...

Fires Kill 1, Injure 10

AP | Posted 03.16.2012

NEW YORK — A 7-year-old Brooklyn boy died in one of two late-night fires that sent 10 other people to hospitals suffering from smoke inhalation....

WATCH: Man Rescued From East River After DIY Raft Fails

Posted 01.13.2012

Emergency responders rescued a teen stranded in the East River Thursday night after his homemade raft deflated. Firefighters received a call at abo...

Body Discovered In Burning Pile Of Garbage

Posted 01.12.2012

A man's charred body was found in a pile of burning garbage in Brooklyn Thursday morning. Firefighters made the grisly discovery at 4AM after resp...

Woman Jumps Off Williamsburg Bridge, Lands On Car And Survives

Posted 01.10.2012

A 34-year-old woman jumped off the Williamsburg Bridge Tuesday afternoon, landing on a parked vehicle (see photos here) on Pitt Street at Delancey. ...

NYC 911 Makes 9/11 Changes

AP | By SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 01.06.2012

NEW YORK -- The city's 911 operators are now able to give callers details about emergency events, reversing what the Sept. 11 Commission determined we...

Firefighters Battle Huge Blaze

Posted 01.05.2012

INWOOD -- A massive fire tore through an Inwood building late Tuesday night, sending more than 100 firefighters racing to the scene, officials said. ...

FDNY Firefighters Severely Burned In Crown Heights Fire

Posted 12.19.2011

A fire set ablaze a Crown Heights brownstone on Monday morning, leaving five firefighters injured, including one firefighter with severe burns to over...

ANOTHER Pepper Spray Incident At NYC High School, 20 Injured

Posted 12.05.2011

A student at a Bronx high school pepper-sprayed about 20 students and the school principal Monday afternoon. It's the third pepper-spraying incident a...

Girl Pepper-Sprays Classmates, Sends 9 To Hospital

Posted 11.30.2011

A 14-year old girl pepper-sprayed her classmates at a Harlem high school Tuesday, sending 9 students to the hospital. Education officials are inve...

Baby Survives Brooklyn Blaze In Dramatic Thanksgiving Rescue

Posted 11.28.2011

Five family members, including an infant, are in critical condition at NYC hospitals after a fire blazed through their Brooklyn Brownstone on Thanksgi...

America the Beautiful: What's in It For Me?

Monika Mitchell | Posted 01.22.2012

Monika Mitchell

All hell broke loose in New York last week when Occupy Wall Street protestors took to the streets to demand their piece of the pie. Rage, conflict and...

Saki Knafo

The Fire Hazard At Occupy Wall Street: Was It Real Or Just A Pretext?

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 11.16.2011

In the wake of yesterday's evictions, hundreds of protestors stood outside Zuccotti Park waiting for word from the court on whether they would be allo...

Bloomberg Defends Choice To Evict Occupy Wall Street

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 11.15.2011

Following the forced evacuation of Occupy Wall Street from Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg explained the de...