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Meet Rescue Paramedic Meagan Valicenti from Station 54 in Queens. FDNY Rescue Medics are elite paramedics with advanced training, equipped to deliver critical care in the most hazardous and challenging conditions. Let’s get to work! | New York City Fire Department (FDNY)

NY-TF1 is one of 28 Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces nationwide, made up of FDNY Special Operations Command personnel and members of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit. Last week, the team carried out a full-scale mobilization drill simulating a Category 4 hurricane striking Fire Island, a barrier island located off Long Island’s southern coast. | New York City Fire Department (FDNY)

A car explosion in New York City's the Bronx sent a massive fireball into the air on Wednesday, Nov. 5, injuring seven firefighters, local officials said. This eyewitness video showed flames burning near a parked vehicle moments before the explosion. According to local media, the explosion occurred after a trash fire spread to several vehicles. The New York City Fire Department (FDNY) said in a post on X that five firefighters suffered burns to their hands and faces. Three were admitted to a hos

WATCH: A brief documentary produced by the Fire Department of the City of New York in the aftermath, at what was then, the deadliest day in FDNY history. 12 FDNY Firefighters were killed in the line of duty on October 17, 1966, an incident that has come to be known within the Department as the “23rd Street Fire.” Visit the FDNY Facebook page on Monday, October 17, 2016, at 12:15 pm EST, to watch a live stream of the 50th Anniversary Commemoration Ceremony to be held at the scene of the fire on 2

Today the FDNY remembers one of the worst tragedies in Department history, when six Firefighters were killed in a fire at a Brooklyn Waldbaum’s on August 2, 1978. Nearly 20 Firefighters were on the roof of the supermarket when the central portion gave way, plunging 12 members into the flames. Lt. James E. Cutillo of Battalion 33, Firefighter Charles S. Bouton of Ladder 156, Firefighter Harold F. Hastings of Battalion 42, Firefighter James P. McManus of Ladder 153, Firefighter William O’Connor of