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An FDNY firefighter’s life may have been saved by his helmet after an air conditioning unit fell down on top of his head. The firefighter was responding to a fire at 1962 85th Street in Brooklyn on Monday morning when the incident occurred, the FDNY said. He was taken to a nearby hospital in serious but stable condition. Surveillance video…

This year, for the first time, Santa Claus wasn’t going able to stop by and see the kids at the Ronald McDonald House on the Upper East Side.

Video of a fire at a Harlem high-rise building showed a woman clinging to her window as she walked on the ledge to escape the smoke, and firefighters’ daring rescue to save her

FDNY released footage of a group of people using illegal fireworks outside a home in Brooklyn. A stray firework ignited a fire inside the home.

The FDNY reported a nearly 400 percent increase in “cardiac arrest” home deaths in late March and early April, a spike that officials say is almost certainly driven by COVID-19, whether they were formally diagnosed or not. Between March 20 and April 5, the department recorded nearly 2,200 such deaths, versus 450 in the same period last year, according to…

The death of a New York City philanthropist whose body was found with stab wounds when firefighters responded to a raging blaze at a Fort Greene building Monday has been ruled a homicide.

An FDNY firefighter has been arrested after being accused of raping an 18-year-old relative, a senior law enforcement source tells NBC New York.

A Russian passenger jet made an emergency landing just after takeoff from an airport in Moscow. The plane collided with a flock of gulls, knocking out both engines. Dozens of people sought medical attention but only one person was hospitalized.

The Senate voted Tuesday to extend funding for first responders suffering health problems as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The New York City Medical Examiner has identified another person killed in the September 11 terror attacks, the 1,644th victim identified

A veteran FDNY firefighter and married father of three was killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan.

A man believed to be a leader in the notorious Gambino crime family was shot to death outside his home on Staten Island, police and sources close to the investigation said.

A man believed to be a leader in the notorious Gambino crime family was shot to death outside his home on Staten Island, police and sources close to the investigation said.

The Trump Organization has filed a lawsuit seeking to reclaim $90,000 in unpaid fees from a Trump Tower resident who died in an April fire at the tower.

The FDNY’s first all-women engine company has been detailed to a firehouse in Manhattan.
The six-firefighter company was detailed to Engine 503 on 51st Street in Manhattan, the FDNY said in a Facebook post.

Thirty-two people were hurt when two buses collided at the Manhattan-side entrance of the center tube of the Lincoln Tunnel Friday, an accident that sent all but one of the dozens of victims to the hospital, FDNY officials said.

The fatal fire at Trump Tower earlier this month was an accident, caused by the improper use of multiple power strips, the FDNY said Monday.

The man killed in a blaze at Trump Tower was an art collector who fell on hard financial times in recent years and had reportedly been trying to sell his 50th-floor apartment there since President Trump was elected. Todd Brassner, 67, died on Saturday at a hospital after a fire tore through his apartment in the high-rise, which was constructed...

The pilot of a helicopter that crashed into New York City’s East River told National Transportation Safety Board investigators that an emergency fuel shut-off switch had already flipped off and he saw part of a passenger’s restraint harness underneath it as the craft was going down.

New Yorkers who witnessed the fast-moving fire in the Bronx that killed at least a dozen people described the horror they saw unfolding right before their eyes.