“Our members attach themselves to a rope and then another member ... One of the firefighters involved in the rare rescue is a probationary FDNY member with less than one year on the job.

Firefighters jumped into action to rescue a teen boy’s life after he was impaled by a wrought iron fence while horsing around ...

One of the firefighters who performed a rope rescue is a probationary firefighter who has been on the job for less than a year, FDNY officials said. “We always train like the real thing so that ...

Since FDNY had taken away personal rescue ropes, they used a rope that cool purchased at Firehouse Expo which he attributed to DiBernardo and he surviving their falls. He shares their stories ...

Firefighter Jason Shoemaker of FDNY Rescue 4 used a bandsaw to cut through three vertical bars and the horizontal top piece of the fence — preventing further injury by carefully keeping the sections ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Borough President Vito Fossella and District Attorney Michael McMahon honored four Staten Island ...

The teen, with the fence still impaled in his leg, was transported to a hospital where the wrought iron posts were removed, FDNY officers said. A teenager horsing around with a friend in Queens ...

Mark Martinez for Rescue 4 said during the press conference. The boy was surprisingly calm during the ordeal, which made the FDNY’s job easier, fire officials said. Leading up to the impalement ...