Daniel Nigro

The number of people who died in New York City fires fell to 66 in 2019, even as crews responded to a record high number of medical emergencies. Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said Wednesday that firefighters are responding more quickly to free New Yorkers trapped by fire. He said the city recorded 25 percent fewer fire deaths than in 2018….

Suspected EMT killer, Jose Gonzalez, is scheduled to appear in court Thursday for a mental health hearing before the start of his March trial. Gonzalez is accused of running down EMT Yadira Arroyo with her own ambulance. Tracie Strahan reports.

A firefighter who died of a heart attack after a 24-hour shift kept responding to emergency calls while already feeling pain

A decades-long veteran of the FDNY died of a heart attack at his New York home after responding to a kitchen fire in a Bronx apartment during his 24-hour tour of duty, Mayor de Blasio and FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said Tuesday.

A fourth person has died in last month’s fire in Queens — a blaze investigators have said was intentionally set, authorities said Thursday.

The Senate voted Tuesday to extend funding for first responders suffering health problems as a result of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The New York City Medical Examiner has identified another person killed in the September 11 terror attacks, the 1,644th victim identified

More than 400 elevators got stuck when a massive blackout wiped out power in parts of Manhattan on Saturday, the city’s fire commissioner said.

Fire marshals announced Thursday that the fatal Queens fire at that claimed the lives of three people, including a 6-year-old girl and her great-grandfather, and left two other members of their family clinging to life, was a work of an arson after “ignitable liquid was used an an accelerant.”

Seven people were hurt, one of them seriously, when a four-alarm blaze tore through an apartment building in the Bronx early Friday, fire officials say.

A 79-year-old woman pulling into a parking lot at a New Jersey strip mall accidentally stepped on the gas instead of the brake, crashing into and through a bakery and sending glass flying everywhere, authorities said.

Police are looking for four young men who viciously attacked a 41-year-old victim outside a store in Brooklyn two weeks ago, battering him in the head with a pan before stealing his cellphone, authorities said.

Three people died, including a 6-year-old girl, and two others are clinging to life at the hospital after a multi-alarm fire broke out in Queens Wednesday afternoon

Investigators have found that problems with a fire truck basket apparently led to a veteran New York City firefighter’s deadly fall as he battled a Queens apartment building blaze in April 2017.

The family of six, including four children no older than 11, who perished in a blaze that tore through their Harlem apartment earlier this month died of smoke inhalation and thermal burns, the city’s medical examiner announced Wednesday.

A family of six, including four children no older than 11, died in a blaze that likely started on the kitchen stove before it tore through their Harlem apartment early Wednesday, officials say.

A U.S. Marine from Long Island has been identified as one of the three victims who was killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan.

A veteran FDNY firefighter and married father of three was killed in a roadside bombing in Afghanistan.

Cpl. Robert Hendriks, 25, of Locust Valley, was one of the three Americans killed in the bombing near the main American base north of Kabul. Michael George reports.

Health workers battling Ebola in eastern Congo are facing “a climate of deepening community mistrust” nearly seven months after the outbreak began, Doctors Without Borders warned Thursday. The medical aid group has temporarily suspended its operations at two treatment centers located in the epidemic’s epicenter after both were set ablaze by unknown attackers. There have been some “30 different incidents...