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The GSA Junket and the Dedication of the FDNY: Contrasting Images of Public Service

Steven Cohen | Posted 04.09.2012

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In sharp contrast to the nonsense at the GSA, I had the pleasure of attending a graduation ceremony last week at the New York City Fire Department's Officer Management Institute.

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Don't Make Our Finest Fight City Hall for Their Lives

Bill de Blasio | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: 9/11, Nypd, Nyfd, 9/11 First Responders, Michael Bloomberg, 9/11 First Responders Health Care, Cancer, James Zadroga Health Bill, New York News

You would think that the City would be doing everything possible to protect the health of police officers like Alonzo Harris, after all they have done for us. But you would be wrong.

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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

Read More: New York Marathon, 9/11 First Responders, Stephen Siller, September 11, Nyfd, Brooklyn/Battery Tunnel, Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Run/Walk, 5k, September 11 Anniversary, New York Fire Department, New York News

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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A 9/11 Remembrance: One Extraordinary Life Out of Many

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.11.2011

Read More: Nyfd, 9/11 Anniversary, New York News

The full story of 9/11 is not about hijacked airliners, intelligence failures, fanatic murderers or conspiracy theorists. Its about lives well lived that were cut painfully short and the endurance of the human spirit.

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Chicago Bikers Launch 9/11 Memorial Ride To Ground Zero

Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Video, Bike Ride, Cfd, New York Firefighters, Firefighters, Nyfd, Flight 93, Motorcycles, Chicago Impact, September 11 Anniversary, Chicago Firefighters, Chicago News

Chicago firefighter Tom Maloney rushed to Ground Zero to aid the New York Fire Department's efforts on September 11, 2001. A year later, Maloney, who ...

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Ode to Firefighters

Robert Slayton | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: 9/11, Firefighters, Government Workers, Terrorism, City Employees, Nyfd, World Trade Center Attacks, World Trade Center, New York Fire Department, September 11th, New York News

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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WATCH: Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, But New York's Security Worries Live On

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 07.02.2011

Read More: Osama Bin Laden Dead, Islamic Cultural Center, Andrew Cuomo, Nypd, Ray Kelly, Michael Bloomberg, Nyfd, Osama Bin Laden Killed, New York City, Osama Bin Laden, New York News

At the news of Osama bin Laden's death a crowd of joyful New Yorkers gathered for a spontaneous celebration just outside the World Trade Center constr...

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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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Tunnel Bob Fights To Re-Open Atlantic Tunnel Tours

Posted 05.25.2011

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More than 30 years ago, Bob Diamond found an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel that ran along Atlantic Avenue, between Court and Hicks Streets, in ...

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Meet The Men In The 2011 NYC Firefighter Calendar Tomorrow Night

refinery29.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NYC Firefighter Calendar, NYC Firefighters, NY Events, NYC Firefighter Calendar 2011, Nyfd, New York News

Tomorrow night, warm up right with NYC's sexiest firefighters at a reception for the unveiling of the 2011 New York City Firefighters Calendar, "Gold ...

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Apparent Healthcare Plan for 9/11 First Responders

Mike Spicer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate, 9/11 First Responders, Nyfd, Nypd, Republicans, Healthcare, Ground Zero, New York City, Ems, Politics News

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Scary Scary Scary New York City

Patrick Sauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coyotes, Bed Bugs, Bronx, Nyfd, 9/11, Scary Things, Ghostbusters, Funny Stories, New York City, Park 51, Be Very Afraid, Muslims, Terror Mosque, New York Post, Nypd, Bedbugs, Tornadoes, Possums, Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, Gotham, New York News

I can't see them, but I know they're everywhere. A WPIX headline screamed bed bugs have reached an "epidemic scale!" And that was based on a survey of pest control companies.

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Trivializing the Attack on the World Trade Center

Steven Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Trade Center Mosque, World Trade Center, Nyfd, Ground Zero Mosque, Sarah Palin Ground Zero Mosque, New York News

New Yorkers don't need people from Alaska and political opportunists like Lazio telling us where and how to develop our city. We also do not need sensitivity lessons about the hurt and horror of 9/11.

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Who Knows If Airline Pilot With Embellished Background Is Flying Armed?

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dowling College, Jan Steenblik, Federal Flight Deck Officers, Nyfd, Alpa, Nelson Minerly, Linda Shotwell, Timothy Martins, American Eagle, Tsa, New Jersey Air National Guard, Ffdo, New York News

Flight deck officers, I'm told, are not supposed to identify themselves as authorized to carry a firearm onto airplanes. But what does that really mean?

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ALPA and Airline Pilot Caught in a Whopper

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dowling College, 177th Fighter Wing, Faa, Ntsb, Nyfd, Alpa, Timothy Martins, Jim Hall, American Eagle, New York News

What reads like fiction in the newspaper is actually painfully true. The article profiling American Eagle pilot Timothy Martins in this month's issue of Air Line Pilot magazine by contrast, is not.

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Pictures of Unnecessary Events

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Security, New York City, Terrorism, Nyfd, September 11, 9/11, Trade Towers, Firemen, Politics News

If our political leaders and our government had taken warnings seriously and had their hair on fire sufficiently to stand up all agencies on high alert, the 9/11 airplane highjackers could have been stopped.

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We The Fallen of 9/11

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nyfd, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Special Forces, George W. Bush, 9/11 Anniversary, Nypd, 9/11, Taliban, Tora Bora, Osama Bin Laden, World News

One must question at this point, on this day of the year especially, whether the power of the U.S. government, diplomatic and military, has been used in the best way to honor our own fallen of 9/11

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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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Five-Alarm Hotties: Vote On Your Favorite NY Firefighter (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The annual New York Firefighter "Hunks" Calendar is out featuring some of the city's finest. Below is a slideshow of a few of the men wearing some of...

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Pension Tension: Paterson Veto Shocks Police, Firefighter Unions

New York Post | BRENDAN SCOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gov. Paterson dropped a bombshell on two powerful unions when he unexpectedly vetoed a routine measure that for nearly 30 years had allowed city cops...

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