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There Just
Aren't Enough Medals
Last
February, Romano’s company
pulled up to a burning house in
Richmond Hill and learned
another firefighter was trapped
inside. The only entry point was
a tiny window on a steep roof.
Romano climbed into the
billowing smoke and hoisted the
injured firefighter out the
window seconds before the room
was engulfed in flames. “I did
what any fireman would do,” said
Romano, 28>>> |
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Firefighter Receives Medal For
Bravery
29 Years
After His Father On FDNY Medal
Day
The son
was honored at Wednesday's FDNY
Medal Day for the daring rescue
of a young man from a building
burning in the Bronx, just as
the father was honored at the
1980 FDNY Medal Day for the
daring rescue of an elderly
woman from a burning building in
Queens>>> |
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Merrick
Firefighter Wins Medal, Has Baby
New York City
firefighter
Thomas Gies of
Merrick had just
locked hands
with Mayor
Michael
Bloomberg and
received a medal
of valor.
But all the
five-year FDNY
veteran could
think about
Wednesday was
getting back to
Long Island and
his wife,
Stephanie, who
gave birth to
their daughter
just hours
before the
Manhattan
ceremony
honoring
firefighters and
paramedics>>>
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Bronx Man
Pulled From Fire By FDNY
Lt. Joseph
Ginley of Ladder 59 bashed in
the front door of the University
Heights home about 3 a.m., then
worked his way through
smoke-filled corridors searching
for victims>>> |
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New York
Firefighter Recalls Rescue Of
Officer
New
York City firefighter Philip
Scarfi veered into the breakdown
lane of the Long Island
Expressway in Plainview when he
saw the cloud of debris left by
a crash, grabbed his first-aid
kit and bolted across eight
lanes of traffic to the side of
the crushed police car, he
testified Monday in a Mineola
courtroom>>> |
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Firefighters Hurt In Brooklyn
3-Alarm Fire
Firefighters battled a huge fire
that burned through an apartment
building in Brooklyn Tuesday
evening. The 3-alarm fire spread
to two buildings next to the
apartment building, the FDNY
said>>> |
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A Peek
Inside FDNY's Rescue Company 2
In Brooklyn
Photographer Andrew Hinderaker,
whose work you may have seen on
Gothamist in the past, recently
spent some time with the
firefighters of Rescue Company 2
in Bed-Stuy>>> |
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Park
Dedicated in Honor of Lt. John
Martinson
Dozens
of firefighters gathered at
Staten Island’s P.S. 55 on June
5, as the school’s Double Nickel
Playground was dedicated to
honor Lt. John Martinson. Lt.
Martinson sustained fatal
injuries while fighting a
two-alarm fire at the Ebbets
Field Houses in Brooklyn on Jan.
3, 2008>>> |
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FDNY
Budget Mystery: Who's Getting
The Axe?
The FDNY
says the council members
shouldn’t fret because the
shutdowns would not jeopardize
safety, but it’s the uncertainty
that has lawmakers worried. The
department acknowledges that it
expects to close or even disband
the units, but won’t yet say
where most of them are>>> |
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FDNY Goes
Multimedia
New
York City’s Fire Department,
better known as FDNY, is giving
geek a go. Fire chiefs and
commanding officers are using a
system they designed to be
smarter about fighting fires and
responding to major incidents
and acts of terrorism>>> |
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Bravery In
Gorman Bloodline
I'd gotten
the call May 1, and could hear
the half-swallowed sob stuck in
his throat. The way he said,
"How ya doin'?" told me he
wasn't doin' well at all. And
when you hear that sound coming
out of this big, tough, always
laughing, retired fireman, you
just know that he'd lost yet
another brother>>> |
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Bronx
Wanna-Be Terrorists May Have
Been Dummies,
But Some
Are Deadly Dangerous
When
the Big One comes, it will come
with a smile>>> |
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Bravest
Nab 'Thief'
The
men, from Engine Co. 24 and
Ladder 5, were in the firehouse
at Houston Street and Sixth
Avenue at 6 p.m. when they heard
the victim scream>>> |
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Concord
Firefighters Deliver Baby Boy
"We
received a knock on the door, an
unexpected knock on the door,"
recalled FDNY Lieutenant Brian
Cordasco. "A mother was in
labor. Our guys jumped into
action.">>> |
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Solemn
Trip For Prince Harry As He
Meets
Firefighters At Ground Zero
He was
then taken on a brief tour of
the construction site before
meeting firefighters from a
nearby station who were involved
in the rescue attempt>>> |
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One Man's Race To Save Ronaldson
Run
A few
years after the first run, Rob
Lane became a firefighter just
like Al Ronaldson.
He
worked at 55 Engine on Broome
Street in Little Italy. At
least, he did until Sept. 11,
2001. The morning the buildings
came down, Rob Lane went down
with them>>> |
