“We didn’t ask for an entire fire department exemption ... and how to properly fight fires [in the zone] is difficult.” Despite the FDNY’s concerns, MTA Chair Janno Lieber defended ...

Union officials said ladder and engine companies in the Manhattan congestion zone are typically ... “You’re altering their [FDNY] culture,” Uniformed Fire Officers Association President ...

FDNY Chief of Fire Operations Kevin Woods ... “When we do that in a building like this, we also set up a collapse zone.” The fire chief’s caution proved warranted when the church’s bell ...

The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) said three people died on Sunday in a house fire in Queens, according to a Facebook post shared Sunday morning. In an email to USA TODAY on Monday ...

between Linden Avenue and Richmond Terrace, an FDNY spokesperson said. The fire was brought under control just after 4 p.m. with no injuries reported, the spokesperson said. While the main part of ...

“We certainly are thinking about the families that are affected by this … We’re going to do everything at the FDNY to make sure that fire deaths stay low.” About 106 firefighters from 25 ...

Four people were hurt in an early morning fire that broke out in an apartment building in Washington Heights, the FDNY said. The fire was reported around 12:40 a.m. and was located on the third ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The FDNY is responding to a fire at a home in Arden Heights on Monday morning. The fire was called at 6:17 a.m. at 45 Village Greens near Arden Avenue during the morning ...

the FDNY said. "First arriving units had smoke coming out of one of the cellar windows. We had fire in the cellar, and that fire extended from the cellar up to the first floor, through the walls ...