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Multiple manhole explosions across New York City left a big mess behind and a number of personnel injured. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Three people were injured Sunday morning after multiple manhole explosions in Midtown sparked fires and led to several power outages in the area, fire officials said. The first reports of smoke and fire came around 4:30 a.m. on 56th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue, the FDNY said. Crews remained on scene for several hours by the time another explosion…

The FDNY was battling several fires in Midtown Sunday morning caused by manhole explosions.

Retired firefighter Dennis A. Farrell died Tuesday after battling a 9/11-related illness, the New York City Fire Department announced on Friday. “We lost another FDNY brother to 9/11 illness,” the Ray Pfeifer Foundation, a nonprofit helping firefighters and police officers who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center with medical needs not covered by insurance, said…

An FDNY firefighter from the Bronx died after losing control of a snowmobile while on a frozen lake in Upstate New York, and ending up underwater, police said

A Queens man and his 6-year-old son were killed in an overnight house fire in Queens, police and fire officials confirmed on Monday. The rest of the family, the boy’s mother and brother were able to escape the fire as it ripped through the East Flushing home around 1:15 a.m. Police and fire responded to a 911 call for a…

A father and his 6-year-old son were killed when a fire tore through a home in East Flushing overnight. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.

A 65-year-old man and 6-year-old boy were killed in an overnight house fire in Queens, police and fire officials confirmed Monday morning. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

A 65-year-old man and 6-year-old boy were killed in an overnight house fire in Queens, police and fire officials confirmed Monday. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

A huge fire burning at a store on a busy commercial strip in Queens on Sunday morning prompted a 5-alarm response from firefighters. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

A New York City employee has been charged with possession of child pornography. Police say 59-year-old Joseph Perrone, an FDNY dispatcher, was arrested Wednesday after a search warrant. Perrone was charged with promoting sexual performance of a child less than 17 and possession of a sexual performance by a child. No other information was immediately available.

The underground fire raged for about four hours, forcing some to have to leave their homes. No injuries were reported. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

The New York City Fire Department on Sunday announced the death of its first active member who has died from COVID-19 complications. Joseph Ferrugia was a 30-year veteran of the FDNY and he was assigned to Ladder Company 142 in Queens, according to the department. Ferrugia was among the first responders who helped save lives at the World Trade Center…

Twenty-one firefighters have been taken to hospitals after a blaze tore through a Harlem apartment building Saturday, the fire department said. None of the injuries is considered life-threatening, and all the patients are in stable condition, the department said. Firefighters were called around 7 a.m. to a building on West 115th Street and found the blaze on the first floor….

An FDNY firefighter’s life may have been saved by his helmet after an air conditioning unit fell down on top of his head. The firefighter was responding to a fire at 1962 85th Street in Brooklyn on Monday morning when the incident occurred, the FDNY said. He was taken to a nearby hospital in serious but stable condition. Surveillance video…

An FDNY firefighter’s life may have been saved by his helmet after an AC Unit fell down on top of his head.

Two men from New York were charged by federal officials on Monday for their alleged involvement in the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol earlier this month. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

A former New York fashion student accused of participating in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol and posting on social media about “storming” the building appeared in court Tuesday as the tally of criminal cases kept growing. Meanwhile, a retired FDNY firefighter who was also charged over the weekend for his alleged involvement in the violent siege has…

Despite his denials, prosecutors say they have evidence that Thomas Fee was part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol earlier in the month. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.