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The 23rd Street Fire was an incident that took place in the Flatiron District neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, on October 17, 1966.A group of firefighters from the New York City Fire Department responding to a fire at 7 East 22nd Street entered a building at 6 East 23rd Street as part of an effort to fight the fire.
Peter James Ganci Jr. (October 27, 1946 – September 11, 2001) was a career firefighter in the New York City Fire Department killed in the September 11 attacks.At the time of the attacks, he held the rank of Chief of Department, the highest ranking uniformed fire officer in the department.
Black Sunday has been used to describe January 23, 2005, when three firefighters of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) died in two fires: two at a tenement fire in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx, with four others being seriously injured, and one at a house fire in the East New York section of Brooklyn.
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The elder Meyran was 46 years old and a 15-year FDNY veteran when he rushed to the fourth floor of the building to battle the blaze. Dennis Meyran at age 16 with his dad, Lt. Curtis Meyran. NY Post
Widow of firefighter who died on NYC’s ‘Black Sunday’ still grieving as FDNY honors 20th anniversary of disaster Khristina Narizhnaya, Natalie O'Neill January 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
As a result, a new Board of Fire Commissioners was created and the original name of the Fire Department City of New York (FDNY) was reinstated. Battalion Chief John J. Bresnan (left) answering a call in 1887. While leading men into a building fire in 1894, Bresnan became trapped and suffocated when a roof collapsed.
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