Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The FDNY’s new commissioner, who rose through the ranks as an EMT, will this week mark the 30th anniversary of the department’s ...

Oct. 28 marked National First Responders Day, established by Congress in 2017 to celebrate the nation’s emergency personnel, including firefighters, police officers, EMTs, paramedics and dispatchers, ...

FDNY EMS Local 2507, which represents more than 4,000 emergency medical technicians, paramedics and fire inspectors in New York City, launched a new public awareness campaign on social media Oct. 6 ...

Bonsignore, a 31-year veteran with the FDNY, served as EMS chief from 2019 to 2022. In her time as an EMS technician, Bonsignore was a first-responer to the Sept. 11 ...

Staten Island’s response times have declined over the past decade as rising call volume and staffing shortages slow advanced ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers urged Mayor Mamdani Saturday not to cut the FDNY’s budget — and to fund long-overdue ...

A fire broke out inside a Bronx firehouse early Friday morning, March 27, injuring multiple firefighters and prompting a ...

Nearly 200 firefighters battled a three-alarm house fire on the Jamaica Bay waterfront in Broad Channel on Tuesday night.