News on New York City Fire Department

Organ Wagon

2010-11-30T23:31:17Z

A Nov. 22, 2010 photo released by the New York City Fire Department, shows an Organ Preservation Specialist demonstrating how a donor would be handled inside the FDNY's new Organ Preservation Unit. As part of a new six month pilot program, the vehicle will be staffed with personnel trained to get a donor family's consent, perform medical procedures necessary to keep the donor organ viable, as well as to tr...

Ground Zero Fire

2010-10-22T00:31:49Z

In this combo made from undated file photos provided by the FDNY, Firefighters Robert Beddia, 53, of Engine Company 24, left, and Joseph Graffagnino, 33, of Ladder Company 5 are shown. The two firefighters were fatally injured Saturday, Aug. 18, 2007 while battling a seven-alarm hig...

APTOPIX Hot Weather

2010-09-15T14:20:06Z

Paul Tauber, a battalion chief with the New York Fire Department, cools himself after firefighters responded to a residential building fire Wednesday, July 7, 2010, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Copyright 2010 Midleton, left, Eiglen Esquea, center, and Debora Fyffe, all from Brooklyn fill out FDNY job applications during the "Putting New Yorkers Back to Work" Job Fair sponsored by The New York City Fire Department, shows FDNY Chief Joe Downey talking in New York on a cell phone prior to deployment to Haiti to join in rescue operations. Downey, along with Deputy Inspector Robert Lukach of the