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From Herb Eysser - UFA Staff Winter in New York - Three Month Multiple Alarm Comparison Last Winter - vs - This Winter December 2024 - 13 December 2025 - 29 January 2025 - 22 January 2026 - 26 February 2025 - 16 February 2026 -...

January 2026 Fire Activity: Staten Island: 1/2 - 2nd Alarm - Box 1558 1/30 - 3rd Alarm - Box 3275 1/31 - 3rd Alarm - Box 0188 Queens: 1/5 - 2nd Alarm - Box 2217 1/6 - 5th Alarm - Box 4037 1/17 - 3rd Alarm - Box 4085 1/19 - 2nd Alarm - Box 4400 1/20 - 2nd Alarm - Box 8551 1/22 - 2nd Alarm - Box...

Total yearly Fire Activity for 2025 Staten Island All Hands Fires - 92 2nd Alarms - 9 3rd Alarms - 3 4th Alarms - 0 5th Alarms - 0 Queens All Hands Fires - 520 2nd Alarms - 27 3rd Alarms - 9 4th Alarms - 3 5th Alarms - 0 Manhattan All Hands Fires - 288 2nd Alarms - 15 3rd Alarms - 5 4th...

I'd like to just take a moment to say, "THANK YOU" to "Capttomo" for posting all those pictures of firehouses, along with the companies, their nicknames, patches, locations, maps, and closest box number. For me there is an entire collection of some of my favorite buffing/firehouse areas when I...

Well, it's the "Most Wonderful Time of the Year", with Santa Clause here in the Macy's New York City Thanksgiving Day Parade '25. Time to do the Christmas shopping, wrapping the presents, decorating the tree, singing your favorite Christmas songs, with all of us getting ready for Santa to...

Here is an interview with FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker which took place November 17, '25. The interview was conducted by Mike Colon of MC's Audio. It is titled - Episode 385: The Best of the Bravest: FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker (Volume 79) The total interview last about 1 hour and...

Today November 11, 2025 we honor our U.S. Military Veterans. We say THANK YOU to all of those who have served our country. Please take a moment to view this video and let us Never Forget - FREEDOM IS NOT FREE"

Halloween 2025 Do you remember this. Or how about this. They sure were some great times. Let's never forget them.

I was asked by one of our members to pass this very interesting article onto the membership. It is an article from www.firehouse.com which features Josh Raeban and Tom Bendick assigned to FDNY's Fire Academy with remote tactical training...

FDNY's fireboat "The Firefighter" which had been restored and docked at the Mystic Seaport Musuem in Mystic, Ct needs a new home. The Firefighter, the most decorated fireboat in the world is on the hunt for a new home. It has been owned by the non-profit group "Fireboat Firefighter Musuem"...

Today September 25, 2025, we congratulate FDNY's newest probationary firefighters Class 2 - 2025. We wish them ALL a Safe and Rewarding Career as they have now become members of the BRAVEST. Here is the entire video of today's graduation ceremony.

I would like to pass on to you a little history on FDNY's 59th Battalion which has been passed on to us by Retired FDNY Dispatcher Herb Eysser - UAF Staff. The 59 Battalion was OPENED and CLOSED Twice within a TWENTY-YEAR PERIOD. The first 59 Battalion was organized in the quarters of Engine...

North Haven Firefighter John Bysko Jr of Old Lyme, Ct passed away suddenly on August 31, '25 at 47 years old. He became a junior member of the Old Lyme Fire Department when he was 15 years old, a senior member in 1997, as well as becoming an emergency medical technician when he was 17. He...

For those of you who enjoyed those Doo Wop and Motown music days there's a place you can go and watch the late Jerry Butler's Doo Wop 50 and Doo Wop 51 Shows that played on PBS TV many, many, years ago. Yes, there is an entire series that gives you the GREAT Performers of those music days...

FDNYs 16th Division was established on April 19, 1965 and was headquartered at Engine Co 274 in Flushing Queens. Battalions 52, 53, and 54 made up the 16th Division. On October 4, 1975 the 16th Division was CLOSED. BIG MISTAKE ! Today Queens is busy. The month of July, 2025 Queens had...

At our monthly zoom meeting that took place on August 5, 2025 it was brought up about the members that provide us with videos of the FDNY members working at fires and emergencies, and the great job they do. Many of us know and follow the videos by "THEMAJESTIRIUM1", "Skyler Fire", and "FDNY...

The 17 Division was organized on October 18, 1968, and placed in service in the quarters of Engine 252 at 617 Central Ave - Bushwick - Brooklyn. The main response district of the 17 Division was Bushwick, Brownsville, and East New York which at the time was being incinerated by the "Locals"...

Here we look back to the busiest days of the "Animal House" - that being the quarters of Engine Co 75 and Ladder 33 in the Bronx. These were the days when our nycfire.net website owner "jbendick" worked there.

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...