New York Fire Department

LOOK: Sexy Firefighters Pose For Medical Center

Posted 05.02.2012

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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...

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Wanted: Woman Ignites 15 Trash Can Fires In Midtown

Posted 03.20.2012

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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...

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The Fight To Diversify The New York Fire Department Continues

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 12.22.2011

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The Fire Department of New York, one of the largest firefighting forces in the entire world, has struggled to recruit, hire and retain firefighters of...

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NYC Fire Department Hires First Transgender Firefighter

Posted 12.03.2011

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The New York Fire Department has hired its first transgender employee. Brooke, a third generation firefighter (her father is still active with FDNY...

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30,000 Runners Follow the Steps of a 9/11 Hero at Tunnel to Towers Race

Emily Faherty | Posted 11.28.2011

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Back on that clear September day in 2001, Stephen Siller ran all the way through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel, straight to the South Tower. The Tunnel To Towers 5K race retraces his heroic footsteps.

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For 9/11 Cancer Sufferers, The Struggle For Help Continues

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.09.2011

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Mike Burke was enjoying a round of golf with fellow firefighters when two hijacked planes struck the twin towers ten years ago. "We immediately le...

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Ode to Firefighters

Robert Slayton | Posted 10.24.2011

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When the world was crumbling -- literally -- they didn't ask anything, just shouldered heavy gear and walked into the towers to do their jobs. Hundreds didn't walk out, ever.

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FDNY in Black and White

Dan Collins | Posted 10.11.2011

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New York has the least diverse fire department of any major U.S. city, and what we learned in a recent court hearing is that blacks and Hispanics who don't take the FDNY test on the assumption that the system is gamed for white guys are absolutely right.

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Fire Truck Lowered Into 9/11 Display

AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 09.19.2011

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NEW YORK — A fire truck that rushed to the aid of victims on 9/11 returned to the World Trade Center site Wednesday as it was lowered like a hug...

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Spider-Man And Thor Team Up With NYPD, FDNY

AP | Posted 06.28.2011

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NEW YORK -- They are icons in every sense of the word: world-renowned, adored and admired. Spider-Man and the NYPD. Thor and the FDNY....

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Fire Truck Crash Leaves One Dead, Two Seriously Hurt

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — A van carrying special-needs adults and a fire engine collided Wednesday, killing one person in the van and injuring several others, ...

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FDNY's Black Firefighter Problem

Village Voice | Steven Thrasher | Posted 05.25.2011

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How would you perform in a test of logic and reading comprehension, even if the terms used in the questions made no sense to you?...

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Patrick Murray, City Firefighter, Convicted Of Running Huge Pot Farm

nydailynews.com | By John Marzulli | Posted 05.25.2011

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A jury convicted a city firefighter Wednesday of running a massive marijuana farm in the basement of a house in Queens owned by a fellow Bravest. "I'...

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FDNY 'City Of The Brave' 2011 Calendar Released

nydailynews.com | By Nicole Lyn Pesce and Gina Salamone | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York City firefighters are used to putting out fires, not starting them. A dozen of the FDNY's brawniest will flaunt their smoking bodies in the ...

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Times Square Reopens After Chemical Spill

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — A spill of about 10 gallons of cleaning fluids inside a Times Square skyscraper prompted a large response from New York City's fire d...

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Firefighters Run Cross-Country In Remembrance Of 9/11

Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

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From The Associated Press NEW YORK -- Members of the FDNY are among firefighters planning to run from Los Angeles to New York in remembrance of the...

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Mayor Bloomberg: City Will Fight Rulling On 9/11 Memorial Names

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city will contest a court order to list a retired fire captain alongside active-duty collea...

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FDNY Rescues 600-Pound Man From Apartment

nydailynews.com | By Sam Levin and Michael J. Feeney | Posted 05.25.2011

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A crowd watched firefighters rescue an obese man who fell in his Manhattan apartment building and couldn't get up yesterday, officials and witnesses s...

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FDNY Budget Crisis: Threat Of 1,000 Layoffs, Closing Of 62 Companies

nydailynews.com | By Jonathan Lemire | Posted 05.25.2011

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The FDNY is bracing for doomsday. The department will be forced to close a staggering 62 fire companies and lay off more than 1,000 firefighters if t...

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"Black Sunday" Firefighter Deaths Ruling Overturned

AP | COLLEEN LONG | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — A judge on Tuesday overturned negligent homicide and reckless endangerment convictions against the manager of an apartment building w...

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James Ryan, 9/11 Firefighter, Denied Line-Of-Duty Funeral By FDNY

nydailynews.com | By Michael J. Feeney and Katie Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fellow firefighters said Long Island firefighter and 9/11 hero James Ryan deserved a line of duty funeral with all the bells, whistles and family bene...

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Making New York's Fire Department Look Like New York

Sheryl McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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A bill now before the City Council is another sign of the continuing challenge New York City faces to increase the number of blacks and Hispanics in its fire department.

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FDNY Responding Faster Than Ever Before

1010wins.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK (AP/ 1010 WINS) -- The FDNY is responding to fires faster than ever, and there have been fewer deaths this year than ever before....

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Union: City Forced Firefighters To Bathe Elephant, Close Firehouse

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- A firefighters union says a New York City engine company had to close its firehouse for 30 minutes to bathe a circus elephant on city orde...

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Deutsche Bank Fire Memorial Service Boycotted By Bloomberg, FDNY, Media

Village Voice | Wayne Barrett | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Bloomberg boycotted the second memorial service yesterday for the two firefighters, Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia, who died at the Deutsch...

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