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For the members who attended this Zoom Meeting Tuesday July 1st, I'm sure everyone would agree that it was an EXCELLENT PRESENTATION of the FDNY Training Academy. The training facility has grown with numerous additions including new classroom design, confined space training, a full-sized cargo...

June, 2025 Fire Activity: Staten Island: No Multiple Alarm Activity Queens: 6/8 - 2nd Alarm - Box 1172 6/22 - 4th Alarm - Box 5368 Manhattan: 6/1 - 2nd Alarm - Box 0851 6/9 - 2nd Alarm - Box 1809 6/10 - 2nd Alarm - Box 8796 6/22 - 2nd Alarm - Box 0465 6/24 - 2nd Alarm - Box 1405 Brooklyn...

A Happy Birthday to you too Doug, aka "AuxWarYearsCapt" on June 29th.

See Post # 9 in this topic. Many famous people related to firefighters across the country

Today, June 28th we want to wish a very special Nycfire.net member a very Happy Birthday. His photographs captured the FDNY War Years in TWO BOOKS. His first book titled: "New York's Bravest - Their Lives on the Line" His second book titled: "Into the Smoke with New York's Bravest", joining...

From Herb Eysser, Retired FDNY Dispatcher - UFA Staff. The following units have received or shortly will receive new apparatus. Ladder 172 - 95' Tower Ladder Ladder 12 - 95' Tower Ladder Ladder 18 - 75' Tower Ladder Ladder 53 - 75'Tower Ladder Ladder 128 - 100' Rear mount Ladder 61 - 100' Rear...

Ray, "raybrag", the only thing I can tell you is that at one time, maybe 1990/95 or so we had been given a Mack CF pumper that had previously been operated by the Yantic Volunteer FD in Norwich (one of five volunteer fire companies within the city borders). Yantic had gotten a new rig and the...

Once again, the FDNY and FDNY Foundation Calander of Heroes is being released

Very busy 24 hours for the Wallingford FD working under record breaking temperatures and high humidity. Thank you both "Signal73" and "EMSR2" for your coverage Wallingford FDs fire activity https://www.nycfire.net/forums/threads/wallingford-ct-2nd-fire-6-25-25.88802/

That is GREAT NEWS Thank you Chief for posting this and as Firefighter William Levering mentioned in the video, THANK YOU to all the doctors and nurses that treated him. They also are LIFE SAVERS we all depend on. Let us THANK the GOOD LORD too for giving Firefighter Levering the chance to...

Happy Birthday to the Most Rev (as he is known) Elwood E., aka "CFDMarshall" Hallelujah - Let the party begin.

There are various discussions throughout this web site on the tower ladder. Here is one of them. https://www.nycfire.net/forums/threads/tower-ladders-vs-rear-mount-straight-ladders.83316/

George Munch - July 4th, 1990 Brooklyn Fire Radio

We also remember "The Worcester Six" fire in which SIX Worcester, Mass Firefighters were killed battling a fire in the Worcester Cold Storage Building the night of December 3, 1999. Lt Thomas Spencer, Lt Timothy Jackson, Lt James Lyons, Firefighter Paul Brotherton, Firefighter Jeremiah Lucey...

I would like to take a moment to say, "THANK YOU" to site member Tom O'Connell, aka "Capttomo", for providing us with many of the FDNY Training Tips on this site. Although not all firefighters here are FDNY Members, there is much that can be learned and practiced from those training tips...