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DEVELOPING: Hundreds of firefighters responded to the scene in the early morning hours. Chief of fire operations described the scene as "a very difficult, dangerous fire operation.” 

Over 130 firefighters, EMTs and paramedics responded. All three floors of the brownstone​ were completely charred.

An electric scooter caught fire behind the NYPD 103 precinct in Jamaica, Queens late Friday night, the FDNY says.

A raging fire tore through a Bronx home Wednesday, leaving one person dead, FDNY officials said. Firefighters were called to the six-story building on E. 160th St. near Melrose Ave. after a fire broke out inside a top-floor apartment about 11:15 a.m., officials said. As they battled the blaze, they found a person dead inside the apartment. Authorities were working to identify the victim. The ...

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A New York landlord accused of setting a building on fire with his tenants inside was arrested a month after the alleged incident.

“Turn around. You will want to see this,” Samuel Erwin said. “Oh, wow,” responded James Friedlander, the brim of his FDNY cap tipping upward as he cast his eyes up. They saw a large steel plate from the World Trade Center reading “Never Forget New York” above them on one of the most trafficked passageways aboard the USS New York. Erwin and Friedlander were among roughly 20 New York ...

FDNYA landlord in Brooklyn, New York was arrested after allegedly setting one of his buildings ablaze with a family of his tenants inside earlier this year. Rafiqul Islam, 66, is facing charges of attempted murder, arson, and assault, the New York City Fire Department announced on Friday. Allegedly angry that his tenants had stopped paying rent and refused to move out, the landlord set fire to the stairs of the two-story building on Sept. 26, the department said. Two adults and six children were

A 12-year-old girl was killed after a fire broke out at a home in the Bronx.

Hundreds of firefighters are spending the weekend at the Suffolk County Fire Academy in Yaphank learning lifesaving skills in honor of hero firefighter Joey DiBernardo.