Firefighting News

A massive explosion at a chocolate factory in Berks County, Pennsylvania, has had a devastating impact as officials have confirmed that two people are dead, eight have been injured, and nine are still missing.

A group of seasoned FDNY fire chiefs claims they were harassed, maligned and ultimately demoted because they were too old in Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh’s eyes, a bombshell age discrimination lawsuit filed against the city claims.

The International Association of Fire Fighters has filed a lawsuit to remove “cancer-causing” PFAS chemicals from firefighter protective gear.

A mother and her three children have all died following a blaze at the home of a Chicago firefighter in the Montclare neighborhood on the city’s Northwest Side, officials said Saturday.

A Memphis Fire EMT testified to the Tennesee Emergency Medical Services board on Friday that Memphis Police officers actively blocked his and his partner's ability to provide patient care to Tyre Nichols.

The boy injured in a 90-foot fall into the Niagara Gorge remains in critical condition as state police investigate the incident as a suicide attempt by his mother, officials said Thursday.

A sixth FDNY staff chief has requested to be demoted and put back in the field as high-ranking firefighters continue to fume over a leaked audio recording of a closed-door meeting with Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, the Daily News has learned.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y — Twenty FDNY members were hurt, three seriously, when a home partially collapsed as firefighters were battling a raging blaze in Annadale Friday afternoon, officials said.

Perfectly chiseled pecs just don’t pay the bills anymore.

On Wednesday’s episode of NBC’s “Chicago Fire,” a storyline involving an infant safe surrender box sounded the alarm for both the Chicago Fire Department and an advocate for abandoned children, who called the plot “misleading.”