NYC Sees Highest Number of Fire Deaths in a Decade

Fires killed 88 people in New York City in 2018, the most in more than a decade, FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said on Thursday.

He said 2018 was a “very busy year for the department,” as it responded to 1.7 million calls — up 4.8 percent from 2017.
-Rich Calder - NY Post

Several Injured in Upper West Side Fire

The fire broke out on the 2nd floor of a 5-story building at West 76th Street near West End Ave. at 1:35 a.m., the FDNY said.

It reached a second alarm, with 25 units and 106 firefighters and EMS workers responding, a spokesman said. Seven civilians and one firefighter were taken to local hospitals.
-Khristina Narizhnaya, Amanda Woods

Nearly Half of FDNY First Responders have a WTC Sickness

Nearly half of the 15,000 FDNY responders who were working on 9/11 — and survived — have gotten sick from their exposure to the toxins that swirled around the World Trade center site, UFA Union officials said Friday.

Flames Rip Through Four-Story Apartment House in Astoria

Chilly neighbors helplessly watched from the street as flames engulfed an apartment house in Astoria.

The blaze began on the third floor of four-story residential building on the corner of 21st Avenue and 33rd Street at approximately 9:05 p.m. on Thursday, according to the FDNY. - Alex Mitchell

Fast-Moving Far Rockaway 4-Alarm Residential Fire

The four-alarm fire started in a first-floor apartment on Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway just before 2:30 a.m.

The flames quickly spread up through a pipe chase to the fourth floor of the five-story building

FDNY Battles Cold and Flames in Bed-Stuy 5-Alarm Fire

BROOKLYN - A massive five-alarm inferno blazed in Bed-Stuy Thursday morning, according to the FDNY.

The fire erupted in a commercial building near Vernon and Stuyvesant avenues at about 4 a.m., the FDNY said.
-The Patch

LODD FF Steven H. Pollard, Ladder 170

NEW YORK CITY - On behalf of all UFA members, we extend our deepest sympathies to FF Steven Pollard's family, friends, and his fellow firefighters at Engine 257, Ladder 170 and Battalion 58.

Steven truly epitomized what it means to be one of 'New York's Bravest' and will be dearly missed.
-Gerard Fitzgerald - UFA President

To date, there are more than 1,400 FDNY members who are veterans or military reservists.