On the Frontlines: Overworked and Underpaid (video)

A fire ripped through three floors of an apartment building situated on top of Jacob’s Pickles restaurant on Amsterdam Avenue Friday night. The fire led to two building-wide evacuations, leaving residents and employees from the restaurant below standing on the sidewalk between 84th and 85th streets to watch as forces from the fire and police […]
Residents and businesses look back on an explosion that destroyed three buildings and killed two people.
“This is the saddest day of the year for the New York City Fire Department,” says Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro.
As global warming accelerates, and as hurricane season approaches, fire and police rescue crews gear up for the next Sandy