It is another cold and windy night at 2am when the tone alert sounds. There is a report of a fire on the 12th floor of a high rise senior housing project in your district. As you pull up to the ...

The Fire Department is investigating whether standpipes failed to bring firefighters water to help fight a seven-alarm fire that broke out on the 17th floor of the Deutsche Bank building on Saturday.

As you jump off the apparatus, fire explodes from a window on an upper floor of a high-rise multiple dwelling. You look up as the fire blows out the window and then is pushed back in by the force of ...

Testimony April 21 and 25 in the manslaughter trial of three construction supervisors related to the fatal 2007 fire at the former Deutsche Bank building site in lower Manhattan focused on the removal ...

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland (NBC Washington) – A five-alarm fire at a College Park, Maryland, apartment building burned much longer than it should have, putting firefighters and the public at unnecessary ...

Officials say a new fire suppression system will be able to detect a breach in the standpipe of the former Deutsche Bank tower where two firefighters -- including one from Staten Island -- died last ...

We all pass large or complex buildings in our coverage area and look at them from the perspective of a firefighter, imagining what could go wrong. But then we also might think, “That building has a ...

IT was a Monday night last May at Las Palmitas, a restaurant in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, when a fire broke out in its lounge filled with a crowd of 200 customers. Police and fire officials say someone ...

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Three people were injured and more than 100 were evacuated from their apartment building in Chelsea early yesterday after a fire department valve in a hallway was “maliciously opened,” officials said.

After the last few days, it’s hard to believe, but it is still winter. Cold weather will soon return and when it does, there are some things we need to be mindful of to stay safe and warm. Al Ludwig ...