The FDNY lost 343 firefighters in the line of duty on 9/11 and has since lost 373 more to related illnesses. The firehouse of Engine Company 214 and Tower Ladder 111 has 12 members with ...

An illegally parked vehicle was blocking a hydrant which delayed firefighters, FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker said.

It wasn’t a raging inferno or a chemical explosion or a fall from an angled ladder that took the life of FDNY Lt. Joseph Maiello. Maiello died of natural causes while on duty in his Staten ...