A woman was killed and another critically injured during an apartment fire in Astoria on the night of Thursday, Jan. 29.

The back-to-back fires come a day after another person died in a separate Brooklyn blaze, this time in Sheepshead Bay. The victim in that case remained unidentified on Friday.

Emergency crews responded in Brooklyn after cables fell from elevated J line tracks Friday morning, blocking part of a street and slowing trains during the early commute.

Humiliation caught on camera as firefighters were stripped and probationary firefighters were mocked. The two hazing rituals happened at two buildings in the Bronx - Engine Company 38 and Ladder ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday appointed the FDNY's second female commissioner, naming Lillian Bonsignore to take the helm at the agency after he is sworn in on Jan. 1. Bonsignore, a former ...

Firefighters extinguished a fire in an alley by 7-Eleven in L.A., leaving one person dead; investigation ongoing.

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New York City Fire Commissioner Robert Tucker has tendered his resignation a day after Zohran Mamdani’s election victory. The outgoing FDNY head said the job, which he held since August 2024, had been ...

As soon as a New York City mayoral candidate wins election – and in most cases for several months before –the city’s political class and media corps eagerly anticipate news of who he will hire to ...

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