The Fire Department's promotional exams may be the most challenging civil service tests in the city. The guys who take them certainly think so. "The f...
Developers in and outside of government are beginning to contribute to prevention and recovery efforts. Code for America Austin released Prepared.ly, a web app to help homeowners manage their risk of wildfire.
Just when you thought it couldn't get any hotter this summer, the FDNY has added fire to the flames with the release of their official 2013 Calendar o...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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 ...
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...
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...
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...