The FDNY has struggled to add women to its ranks since 1982. Fifteen women graduated from the Academy in 2018, the largest number of new female firefighters since that initial 1982 class.

Weaver says FDNY officials have not answered his question. They declined to answer CBS News New York's questions, too. Instead, a department spokesperson said in a statement: "We are saddened by ...

Michele Fitzsimmons, after Maura’s FDNY graduation ceremony at Brooklyn College’s Whitman Hall on Feb. 22, 2007. (Julia Xanthos for New York Daily News) The FDNY’s gender barrier was smashed ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The FDNY fought a fire at a smoke shop early Friday morning on the major business district of New Dorp Lane. The fire was called at 1:15 a.m. at 308 New Dorp Lane between ...

NEW YORK -- Two people were killed when a fire broke out Wednesday morning in the Bronx. The FDNY says a parked car blocked a fire hydrant and slowed down its response. Firefighters were called to ...

Verizon Communications, Inc. NEW YORK, Jan. 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Verizon Frontline today announced the completion of a communications upgrade for the New York City Fire Department (FDNY ...

A group of FDNY fire chiefs toured the devastation left behind by the Los Angeles wildfires last week; learning valuable lessons on fighting and preventing brush fires in New York City.

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Two former FDNY firefighters have filed a class-action ... about being forced to work unpaid hours. Obtained by The New York Post “I don’t know about you but slavery is over.

according to residents and the FDNY. The fire broke out minutes before 10:30 a.m. on the second and third floors of the three-story brownstone on Eastern Parkway near New York Avenue in Crown ...

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“They were able to engage, but for two parked cars on hydrants,” FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker told reporters Sunday. ‘I’m begging New Yorkers in all five boroughs, please do not leave ...