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

FDNY officer Michele Fitzsimmons, who was told by her grandfather that “women shouldn’t be firefighters” is poised to become ...

Units from the FDNY’s 15th Division arrived just after 6:45 p.m. to find fire on the second floor of a two-story private dwelling near Schenectady Avenue and Avenue N. Firefighters discovered ...