Many city property owners see a source of greener power in that ball of fire 93 million miles away. The risk of a fire closer to home, however, can make it problematic to erect solar panels on many buildings.
A fire engine with sirens blaring is much more likely to be headed to a medical emergency than a fire these days.
For a long time, the city and the fire union have disagreed over how many people should staff a fire engine. The union would prefer five people, the city four.
A decrease in blazes and the decision two decades ago to respond to medical emergencies have dramatically changed the FDNY workload.
It likely won’t be until the period of public mourning is over that we’ll learn what caused the demise of Lt. Gordon Ambelas.
More than a dozen years after rescue workers and others toiled in toxic fumes amid the ruins of the World Trade Center, a report recommends changes to practices—and culture—before the next disaster.
The settlement of the long-standing legal fight over discrimination by the FDNY is at least the fifth time the de Blasio administration has broken off Bloomberg-era legal fights.
Civilians appear to have been the victims of today’s tragedy in Harlem. But building collapses also pose a grave threat to firefighters and other responders.
A federal judge’s order and record numbers of minority recruits hint that change is coming to the FDNY. But veteran black firefighters are taking a wait-and-see approach.
A popular kind of detector is poor at sensing certain types of fires. Some lawmakers want New York City to require property owners to also install a more expensive kind.
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