Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons — a 24-year veteran who joined the FDNY a few months before 9/11—  was named Deputy Chief ...

An FDNY officer who was told by her grandfather that “women shouldn’t be firefighters” is poised to become the highest-ranked ...

There have been two deadly fires in New York City this week, and investigators say in both incidents, cars were blocking the closest fire hydrants. As CBS News New York's Naveen Dhaliwal reports, the ...

A fire in the Bronx left one man dead and another hospitalized in critical condition Wednesday morning in Tremont, police say.

"There’s no doubt that the cars that were parked on the hydrants have slowed down our members from engaging in firefighting tactics,” said FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker said. A 37-year-old ...

Fire officials say a car blocking a fire hydrant slowed their response to a deadly fire at a Buddhist temple in the Bronx on Wednesday morning. Two people were killed ...

(Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News) “They were able to engage, but for two parked cars on hydrants,” FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker told reporters Sunday. ‘I’m begging New Yorkers ...

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The FDNY called out drivers Sunday who parked in front of fire hydrants, slowing firefighters down at a deadly house fire in Brooklyn. Firefighters were dispatched to a Bay Ridge home on 80th ...

The FDNY has called out the drivers of two cars parked near fire hydrants, saying they slowed down the agency's response to a deadly fire in Brooklyn early Sunday morning.

BAY RIDGE, Brooklyn (PIX11) – The FDNY has called out the drivers of two cars parked near fire hydrants, saying they slowed down the agency’s response to a deadly fire in Brooklyn early Sunday ...