STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Borough President Vito Fossella and District Attorney Michael McMahon honored four Staten Island ...

PAUL HASHAGEN, a Firehouse ® contributing editor, is a retired FDNY firefighter who was assigned to Rescue 1 in Manhattan. He is also an ex-chief of the Freeport, NY, Fire Department. Hashagen is ...

NEW YORK — A teenager horsing around with a friend in Queens was impaled when he stumbled into a wrought iron fence — and then freed by a quick-thinking group of New York’s bravest before being rushed ...

The teen, with the fence still impaled in his leg, was transported to a hospital where the wrought iron posts were removed, FDNY officers said. A teenager horsing around with a friend in Queens ...

Firefighters were putting out hotspots at the scene of a massive building fire in Harlem Thursday morning that they had ...

Mark Martinez for Rescue 4 said during the press conference. The boy was surprisingly calm during the ordeal, which made the FDNY’s job easier, fire officials said. An FDNY firefighter shows the ...

RIDGEWOOD, Queens (WABC) -- When a bizarre accident in Queens left a teenager impaled by a fence, a swift-acting FDNY rescue team helped save his life. Impaled on a wrought iron fence, a 15-year ...

Assistant Chief John Sarrocco (center) firefighter Jason Shoemaker (right) and Lt. Mark Martinez of FDNY Rescue 4 rescued a 15-year-ol boy who was impaled on a fence in Queens. (Kerry Burke/NYDN ...

The child was listed in critical condition at Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze, according to the FDNY. Firefighters received multiple reports of individuals trapped in a blaze at ...