An FDNY firefighter shows the tools used to extricate the teen from the fence. Peter Gerber Leading up to the impalement, the boy and his buddy were messing around on the sidewalk. “The reports ...

Members of the FDNY were called to the residential block and immediately began working to free the teen’s leg from the fence. Firefighter Jason Shoemaker of FDNY Rescue 4 used a bandsaw to cut ...

Firefighters jumped into action to rescue a ... The 15-year-old’s leg was pierced by one spike when the FDNY reached the scene around 3 p.m. and began cutting around the low fence to free ...

The flames broke out around 9:00 Wednesday night. Overhead pictures that FDNY shared show a clear picture of what firefighters were up against. Fire officials says the blaze was aggressive and had ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y — A firefighter suffered minor injures in a house fire in Annadale late on Wednesday night, according to the FDNY. The blaze was called at 10:21 p.m. at 120 Bennett Place ...

ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ill. – One person was left injured Wednesday morning after a vehicle was partially trapped underneath a ...

Firefighters would need the precision of a surgeon to slice through the fence and free the teenager. "We cut the vertical bars going up. Three of them," said FDNY Lt. Mark Martinez. "Then we cut ...

Thirty-nine FDNY units with 180 firefighters descended on the scene, and it took nearly four hours to bring the inferno under control. Four firefighters were hospitalized with minor injuries ...

In a remarkable display of precision and speed, FDNY firefighters successfully extricated a 15-year-old boy in Queens, after a section of a wrought iron fence impaled his leg. The incident ...

NEW YORK — The Uniformed Firefighters Association ( UFA ) has reclassified the deaths of two retired members of the FDNY as 9/11-related deaths, according to a post on the union’s X ...