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May 4, 2012
After Mounting Pressure, Mayor's Office Gives Out Hard Copies of 'Final' 9-1-1 Report
Today, the mayor's office gave out hard copies of the city's controversial 9-1-1 report to reporters that asked for it. The Voice stopped by City Hall late this afternoon to grab a copy of the 133-page consultant's report that examined the city's emergency response system. It has been a topic of m ... More >>
News
March 7, 2012
Will the FDNY Remain Over 90 Percent White and Male?
A Society of Black Firefighters Hopes to Bring More Minorities to the Job
Blogs
February 25, 2012
Fire At 101 Orchard Street Under Control
A fire in the ductwork of a restaurant at 101 Orchard Street that broke out this morning in its kitchen is under control as of 10:28 a.m., the FDNY told Runnin' Scared. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
Blogs
January 12, 2012
Car Plunges Into Hudson River Off West Side Highway [Updated]
A car plunged into the Hudson River off of the West Side Highway earlier this morning, according to reports. The FDNY confirms the incident and says the call came in at 10:05 a.m. -- the vehicle went into the water near West 94th Street. One person was removed from the water prior to FDNY arr ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2011
285 Madison Elevator Accident Results in Injuries to Three, One Reported Dead [Updated]
We're hearing reports that there's been an accident in an elevator at 285 Madison, the Young and Rubicam building, that's resulted in 1 person dead and 2 injured, according to the New York Times. The FDNY confirms the incident and tells us that the elevator fell at least 2 floors, and that 3 ... More >>
Blogs
November 22, 2011
Vehicle on Fire Reported in Midtown, Near Macy's [Updated]
We're hearing reports that there's a school bus or another vehicle on fire at 35th Street and 7th Avenue, near Macy's. The Corcoran Group has Tweeted a photo, saying, "A truck is on fire outside Macys on 7th Avenue, sounds of explosions nearby." The FDNY tells us there is smoke in the area a ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2011
FDNY vs. NYPD in Charity Boxing Match for Wounded Veteran
This Saturday, the NYPD and FDNY are occupying (ha!) Madison Square Garden for a good cause. The NYPD Fighting Finest will fight the FDNY Bravest in the Battle of the Badges, a boxing match for charity. The boxing match is happening just a week after Veterans Day and benefits former soldiers. ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2011
FDNY Confiscates Occupy Wall Street's Generators
The fire department and police department paid Occupy Wall Street a visit this morning and took their power generators. The FDNY says they were looking for anything that posed a fire hazard: generators, fuel, gas tanks, etc. According to reports, the materials were removed peaceably. This i ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2011
MTA Responds to 4 Train "Smoke Condition," Says Cause is "Still Under Investigation"
Steven ThrasherThe MTA has responded to the incident involving the 4 train being stuck, in smoke, under the East River last night, with which we were intimately familiar. The (very) good news is that no one, including none of the five firefighters we left down there when our evacuation train ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2011
The City Goes Back to Federal Court Over the FDNY
The City of New York was back in United States District Judge Nicholas Garaufis' courtroom today, just a few weeks after the judge issued a blistering order calling the FDNY "a bastion of white male privilege." Garaufis's order mandated that the FDNY and the city will be placed under a "Cour ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2011
Paul Washington of the Vulcan Society: "The FDNY Has Been Lily White for 150 Years"
FDNY Captain Paul Washington is a past president of the Vulcan Society. He was also the FDNY employee who raised the original Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint about the department's racial makeup, which joined a decades long federal lawsuit against the city and led to yesterday's la ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2011
The FDNY, a "Bastion of White Male Privilege," Placed Under Permanent Injunction by Judge
Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis laid down the law with the FDNY today, writing that the job of "New York City firefighter - arguably 'the best job in the world' - has remained a stubborn bastion of white male privilege." In a sweeping opinion, Garaufis concluded that after months (years, really) of ... More >>
News
August 31, 2011
9|11: The Winners
For some people, the terrorist attacks have been a gold mine
Blogs
August 17, 2011
FDNY Rescues Driver From Truck Dangling From Sanitation Garage
This photo just in. Somehow, a garbage (some are saying a salt) truck managed to get in this precarious position, two stories high, dangling out of a sanitation garage at 58-35 52 Road at 59th Street in Queens. The FDNY tweeted the photo, which is, you have to admit, pretty freaking dramatic, ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2011
Man Attempting to Jump Off Roof of 30 Rock Has Been Rescued (Updated)
via @DurrellojelloA man is attempting to jump off the 70th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the FDNY confirmed. There is currently a fire engine and EMS on the scene. People at NBC have been discussing the situation on Twitter -- including @Durrellojello and Luke Russert. @Durrellojello explain ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2011
Amadou Diallo Shooters, Wife Beaters Still Became Firefighters: FDNY Brass
More fascinating news from the courtroom of Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis, via The Daily News: the questionable pasts of white candidates were overlooked when they came up for review with the FDNY, a deposition stated yesterday. Even former NYPD cops Richard Murphy and Edward McMellon, who ... More >>
Blogs
July 18, 2011
Salvatore Cassano, FDNY Commissioner, Recruits in Black Church as New FDNY Hiring Period Opens
After a federal judge ruled about what the fee will be to take it, the FDNY opened up the filing period for its newest exam to become a firefighter. From last Friday, until September 15, 2011, candidates can apply here to take the new exam. Meanwhile, in an effort to do something about the ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2011
Judge Orders City Not To Increase Fee for New FDNY Entrance Exam
Nothing is ever easy with the federal government's four decade long attempt to force the city to comply with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and make the Fire Department more diverse. As we wrote about in our cover story last December, U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis recently ordered that ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2011
The FDNY Fireman Calendar Is Now for Sale
We'd say that the Official 2011/2012 Calendar of Heroes featuring FDNY firefighters, which sells for a mere $15.95 for 16 whole months, is a bargain at twice the price, but we simply can't stop staring at that man's perfectly rakish eyebrows! All proceeds go to the FDNY Foundation, which mean ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2011
Basement Fire on St. Marks
via Zach BaronFirefighters have responded to a fire on 11 St. Marks Place, between Second and Third avenues. They are currently at the scene of the fire, which was reported at 1:32 p.m. The Fire Department informs us there was a 21-unit response. The first responders arrived at 1:34 p.m. Th ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2011
Black FDNY Electrician Confronted with Noose
Looks like race will continue to be a hot issue with the FDNY. According to the Daily News, a black FDNY electrician allegedly found a noose outside of his work locker over the weekend. The News reports that the electrician, Gregory Seabrook, was one of four black FDNY electricians who "file ... More >>
News
December 15, 2010
FDNY's Black Firefighter Problem
Meet the black candidates who aced the FDNY's supposedly racist entrance exam—and still can't become firefighters
Blogs
December 2, 2010
"Die in a Fire" Is Kind of an Empty Threat Now
Good news for all of those drug-addled New Yorkers who are more likely to get murdered: at least they don't have to worry about burning to death in a fire! The FDNY says that for the second year in a row, the city is on track to set a record low for fire fatalities. Which means New Yorkers f ... More >>
Blogs
November 11, 2010
Fire at Ageloff Towers in the East Village Now Under Control
via EV Grieve/jdxThis morning in the East Village we've been hearing a lot of helicopter and siren noise (more than usual, even!). Turns out there was a fire at the Ageloff Towers on Avenue A between 3rd and 4th Streets. Via a reader, jdx, EV Grieve reports, "Fire on the 6th floor, east 4th s ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2010
FDNY Finds Hydroponic Pot Farm in Lower East Side Basement
Oh dear. Lower East Side blog Bowery Boogie reports some drug-fueled drama that went down in a tenement on Rivington Street Monday night when a resident's 911 call led to 10 evictions and the discovery of a hydroponic marijuana farm in the basement of a local Mexican eatery.
Blogs
October 11, 2010
Breaking: Explosives Found at East Village Cemetery
Sergio HernandezUpdate: Reporting from the scene, Sergio Hernandez tells us that FDNY just arrived, and that cops are telling people to "keep moving." 2nd Street is blocked off between 1st and 2nd. DNAInfo reports that a plastic garbage bag containing C4 explosives but no blasting cap was fou ... More >>
Blogs
August 23, 2010
5 Alarm Blaze: NYC Firefighter Busted with Bundles of Hydroponic Chronic (Weed)
"Smoke weed every day," singer/rapper Nate Dogg once famously encouraged listeners. And so it goes: marijuana smokers are a-plenty in America, and of course, in our city. And who better to know how to control the "sparking up" of a bowl of Five-Borough Bud than one of the Fire Department of N ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2010
Apotheke Owner Albert Trummer, Firestarter, Arrested for Combustible Bar Trick
The Dizzy FizzDrink of fire.Albert Trummer, co-owner and head mixologist at Chinatown bar Apotheke, is known to occasionally throw booze on the bar and light it on fire. That nifty little party trick got the Austrian-born drinks slinger arrested by the Fire Department this past weekend.
Blogs
June 1, 2010
FDNY Saves Puppies and Kitties in Pet Store Fire Peril
Okay, we're calling it a day. Depressed that you're back in the normal grind of things after a lovely three-day weekend? And that the weather sucks? So is everyone else, asshole. Cheer up! How? Funny you ask.
Blogs
May 13, 2010
Radiation in the East Village? Levels Are "Negligible," Says FDNY
Blogger EV Grieve and a few of our Twitter friends have alerted us to a "radiation alert" in the East Village. Per EV Grieve reader cheese: "Yeah, my friend called and said there were fire trucks out, street blocked, something about hazardous material trucks also."
Blogs
April 16, 2010
FDNY Ordered to Hire More Blacks -- But Budget Woes May Scuttle That for Now
By Alana Horowitz and Sara Gates Three months ago, when a federal judge ruled that the FDNY had discriminated against minority applicants, it appeared that diversity in the ranks might improve. But at least now, with the city's budget a shambles, that looks unlikely. U.S. District Court Ju ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2010
Barrett: The Post and Daily News Rush to Defend Bloomberg's FDNY Apartheid
The Daily News and the Post have rushed to the defense of Fire Department exams that have given us the whitest rank and file of any big-city department in the country, with 303 black firefighters out of 8,998, a percentage that's actually lower than the last time a federal judge ruled the sam ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2009
Fire Chief Salvatore Cassano is New FDNY Commissioner
And the new Fire Commissioner is -- Salvatore Cassano! Awright, we win the pool! Cassano is 64, FDNY's Chief of Department (highest ranked uniformed officer), a 40-year veteran, and a former soldier. He has spoken for the department on controversial issues like anti-terrorism protocol. He w ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2009
FDNY Cuts 49 Engine Companies' Staff from 5 to 4; Union Protests
When word got out that the city was considering closing 25 firehouses, we figured less drastic cuts would be announced later. Today the city says it will reduce staffing at 49 engine companies. (New York currently has 194 such companies.) The city's contract with the firefighters' union al ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2009
Bloomberg calls fire at 9/11 chapel arson
The FDNY are saying that a fire in the Memorial Park where unidentified remains of 9/11 victims are stored was deliberately set, an act Mayor Bloomberg calls "craven and contemptible." The remains are being temporarily stored in a weatherproof tent near the Medical Examiner's office while a ... More >>
Blogs
October 25, 2009
25 firehouses could be on the block
Sources are telling the Post that city officials are considering closing 25 firehouses in the five boroughs as a cost-cutting measure. Each closing would contribute $1 million to the city's $5 billion budget gap. The city proposed 16 company closings in this year's budget.
Blogs
August 27, 2007
FDNY Shake-Up After Deutsche Bank Blunders
Sources are telling the Post that city officials are considering closing 25 firehouses in the five boroughs as a cost-cutting measure. Each closing would contribute $1 million to the city's $5 billion budget gap. The city proposed 16 company closings in this year's budget.
Blogs
August 27, 2007
Smoking Caused the Deutsche Bank fire: Mayor
Sources are telling the Post that city officials are considering closing 25 firehouses in the five boroughs as a cost-cutting measure. Each closing would contribute $1 million to the city's $5 billion budget gap. The city proposed 16 company closings in this year's budget.
Blogs
August 23, 2007
Two Firefighters Injured at Deutsche Bank site
Sources are telling the Post that city officials are considering closing 25 firehouses in the five boroughs as a cost-cutting measure. Each closing would contribute $1 million to the city's $5 billion budget gap. The city proposed 16 company closings in this year's budget.
Blogs
August 21, 2007
Criminal Probe of Deutsche Bank Building Fire Launched
Sources are telling the Post that city officials are considering closing 25 firehouses in the five boroughs as a cost-cutting measure. Each closing would contribute $1 million to the city's $5 billion budget gap. The city proposed 16 company closings in this year's budget.
News
August 15, 2006
Blunt Trauma
Firefighters for whom 9-11 never ends
Blogs
May 30, 2006
Preparing for a Higher 9-11 Toll
Firefighters for whom 9-11 never ends
Blogs
May 25, 2006
Commish, Mayor Warned: 'Blood on Their Hands'
Firefighters for whom 9-11 never ends
Blogs
March 31, 2006
911 on 9-11: "You Alright Up There?"
Firefighters for whom 9-11 never ends
Blogs
February 17, 2006
Firefighters' Kin Call for Backup
Firefighters for whom 9-11 never ends
News
November 29, 2005
Open and Shut
Four years later, we still have ten big questions
News
June 28, 2005
The Fire Next Time
Skyscraper safety: the push for NY's high-rises to learn not to burn
News
December 16, 2003
Bum Raps?
Skyscraper safety: the push for NY's high-rises to learn not to burn
NYC Life
January 22, 2002
9-11, Inc.
Firefighters Are Upset About a Memorial. Other People Are Upset About Fake Memorabilia. Upset?
News
June 26, 2001
Ambulance Wars
How Private Ambulance Crews Steer Patients Away From Public Hospitals
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