Community Says Goodbye to Fallen Hero

Delano, who served as Chief of the West Hamilton Beach Volunteer Fire Department (WHBVFD) for 12 years, died on Wednesday, July 30 from leukemia, which friends and family members believe resulted from his exposure to the wreckage of the World Trade Center on 9/11...

Man Falls Through Subway Grating...

The dramatic rescue of the man was caught on tape, with footage showing firefighters climbing down a subway air duct, responding to call for help from the man 10 feet below...

A Memory They Refuse To Let Fade

"It doesn't matter how many years pass," said Hastings, who lived in Hicksville in 1978 but has since moved to Florida. "The other widows and families are always in my heart."...

Mom, Son Die In Upper East Side Fire

An elderly woman and her son were killed and another person injured Saturday night in an upper East Side apartment fire, officials said...

Agencies, City Itself May Face Rap In Deutsche Bank Fire

"Stupidity is not a crime under the penal code," the official said. "Otherwise, we'd be a lot busier...

Pol: UN Building, Grand Central  Should Fall Under City Inspection

"If something goes wrong in a foreign embassy or in a state building, it's our firefighters -- New York City firefighters -- that are going to have to go up those stairs and save those lives, and they don't have a road map in those 885 buildings," said Stringer at a news conference at the Deutsche Bank building at Ground Zero, where two firefighters died last year in a blaze...

9/11 'Payback'

"We will never forget what people around the country did for us after 9/11, and to me the best way to honor that sense of humanity is by helping other people rebuild on the 9/11 anniversary," he said...

Firefighters Help Pay It Forward

"It's the generosity New Yorkers received after the 9-11 attacks" that started the annual New York Says Thank You program, Kreppein said. "This pays it forward."...

Dave Matthews Band Donates Show Tickets to New York Heroes

Because many emergency workers have been diagnosed with lung cancer and lung related diseases after working at Ground Zero, the band and charity decided to donate tickets to New York 9/11 first responders and their families...