FDNY officer Michele Fitzsimmons, who was told by her grandfather that “women shouldn’t be firefighters” is poised to become ...

On Friday, Michele Fitzsimmons became the New York City Fire Department's first female deputy chief. Fitzsimmons, a 24-year ...

Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons — a 24-year veteran who joined the FDNY a few months before 9/11—  was named Deputy Chief ...

Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons will be promoted to deputy chief on Friday, becoming the first woman in the department to ...

Members of the FDNY stopped by the McDonald's at 1515 Williamsbridge Rd. to celebrate its reopening.The FDNY Foundation held ...

Fifteen people were hurt – including three firefighters — when a massive Friday morning blaze ripped through a Brooklyn ...

Wilkes-Barre City Fire Department's first responders saved the lives of 100 people in a fire that broke out at the B'nai B'rith Senior Apartments last year.

"There’s no doubt that the cars that were parked on the hydrants have slowed down our members from engaging in firefighting tactics,” said FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker said. A 37-year-old ...

Thomas 'Tommy' Dunn had been a firefighter for less than a year when two hijacked passenger jets crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

(Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News; FDNY) A 37-year-old man was killed and a woman and toddler critically hurt when a fire ripped through their Brooklyn apartment building early Sunday ...

A car fire which broke out in a parking lot on Rochambeau Avenue in Norwood close to Montefiore Medical Center's Moses campus ...