The union representing rank-and-file EMTs is excited about the new rung on the FDNY’s promotion ladder. But members of the officer’s union see the sergeant’s job as a way for the city to get ...

It was the first time since 1918 that firefighters' lives were lost at two separate fires or emergencies in the same day, officials said.

Bergin, who was 9 at the time, works at Ladder 157 in Brooklyn. “I wanted to be a firefighter for as long as I can remember,” Bergin Jr., 32, said, in a post on the FDNY’s Instagram page.