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The New York City Fire Department is the largest municipal fire department in North America, and the Western Hemisphere, and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department. [ citation needed ] The FDNY employs over 11,000 uniformed firefighting employees, 4,500 uniformed EMTs, paramedics, and EMS employees, and 2,000 civilian ...
New York City's Bureau of Fire Investigation, a division of the FDNY, currently employs about 140 Fire Marshals, 30 Supervising Fire Marshals (equal in rank to Captain) as well as several Commanders (equal in rank to Deputy Chief), an Assistant Chief Fire Marshal and a Chief Fire Marshal. The position of fire marshal is a promotional civil ...
A fire broke out in Manhattan’s famed Bryant Park holiday market Winter Village Friday morning, according to New York City Fire Department officials. At around 9:23 a.m. local time, firefighters ...
Units from the New York Fire Department responded to the popular attraction at around 9.30 a.m. on Friday morning following reports of a fire in the Manhattan park next to the citys main library.
A raging two-alarm fire left 15 people injured in an Upper Manhattan apartment building Tuesday morning, reports say. The blaze tore through the first floor of a six-story building West 204th ...
28 – Gardiner Fire Department (2 sta.'s) 29 – Glasco Fire Company; 30 – High Falls Fire Department; 31 – Highland Fire Company (2 sta.'s) 32 – Hurley Fire Department; 33 – Kerhonkson, New York Fire Company; 34 – Kripplebush-Lyonsville Fire Company; 35 – Lomontville Fire Company; 36 – Malden-West Camp Fire Department (2 sta.'s)
Prior to 1865, the New York City Fire Department was staffed by volunteers. On March 30, 1865 the New York State legislature passed a law organizing the Metropolitan Fire Department as a paid firefighting force that took control of all the powers and authority of the volunteer department, as well as all the assets such as the fire trucks ...
Officials in New York City say a 1.7 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Queens and Roosevelt Island on Tuesday morning, not an explosion.. Around 5:45am, the FDNY received reports of buildings ...