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New York City | FDNY crews assist woman impaled on fence
Strong Street, Bronx | 080812 Firefighters from Engine 81 and Ladder 46 in the Bronx came to the aid of a woman who lost her balance, fell backward and was impaled on the spike of a 2-foot wrought iron...
View ArticleMassachusetts | Boston sending emergency staff and supplies to NYC
Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced the City of Boston will send a team of City employees to New York City tomorrow to assist with relief efforts following Hurricane Sandy. Volunteers from the...
View ArticleNew York | Mayor Bloomberg presides over graduation ceremony for CERT volunteers
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today joined Office of Emergency Management (OEM) Commissioner Joseph F. Bruno, Police (NYPD) Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Fire (FDNY) Commissioner Salvatore J. Cassano and...
View ArticleResearch | Heat-related deaths in Manhattan projected to rise
Residents of Manhattan will not just sweat harder from rising temperatures in the future, says a new study; many may die. Researchers say deaths linked to warming climate may rise some 20 percent by...
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New York | Five FDNY EMS Captains promoted
The FDNY capped off a successful EMS Week with the promotion of five captains in a ceremony on May 24 at FDNY Headquarters. “Your experience and training will make your paramedics and EMTs better at...
View ArticleNew York | State Health Dept to conduct evac drill to demo state’s new...
Representatives from the New York State Department of Health (DOH), Bellevue Hospital Center, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Greater New York Hospital Association and other officials...
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NY | FDNY firefighters rescue family from attacker
(L to R) Lt. Brendan Connolly, FF Nick Nugent, FF Danny Morales, FF Ronald Donati, FF Leo Lopez and FF Steve Tomocic. FDNY firefighters from Ladder 115 were in the right place at the right time on Feb....
View ArticleNew York | NYC – Mayor de Blasio’s press conference of March 12 on East...
Mayor de Blasio: I’d like to speak about the tragedy that unfolded this morning. There’s a lot to tell you about what’s going on, about the extraordinary response by our first responders. But first,...
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New York | More FDNY members will now carry Naloxone
Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano and Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan with the FDNY paramedics honored for their life-saving rescues using Naloxone. Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano...
View ArticleNew York | 200 doses of Nalaxone distributed today – NYC Overdose Awareness Day
In recognition of Mayor Bill de Blasio declaring today New York City’s first Overdose Awareness Day, the Health Department will train New Yorkers on overdose prevention and distribute 200 doses of...
View ArticleNew York | NYC public health officials report first five human WNv cases for...
The Health Department today confirmed the season’s first human cases of illness with West Nile virus in five New York City residents, all over the age of 50. Two patients reside in Brooklyn, and one...
View ArticleNew York | Healthcare provider tests positive for Ebola in NYC (w video of...
A hospitalized medical aid worker who volunteered in Guinea, one of the three West African nations experiencing an Ebola epidemic, and since returned to the United States has tested positive for Ebola...
View ArticleNew York | CDC confirms Ebola test results in NYC healthcare provider
A hospitalized medical aid worker who volunteered in Guinea, one of the three West African nations experiencing an Ebola epidemic, and since returned to the United States has tested positive for Ebola...
View ArticleNew York | Governor outlines State response to Ebola case in NYC
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today outlined New York State’s response to a positive test for Ebola in a patient at Bellevue Hospital in New York City – in order to ensure public health and safety and...
View ArticleNew York | State and NYC to create program to encourage healthcare workers to...
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that the State of New York and the City of New York will create a program of financial incentives and other employment...
View ArticleNew York | FDNY urges all New Yorkers to have working CO detectors
After three separate carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning incidents in one week, which hospitalized six people, the FDNY urges all New Yorkers to ensure they have working CO detectors in their homes and...
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New York | FDNY crews rescue two window washers from 1 World Trade Center
FDNY members on the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center, rescuing the window washers FDNY firefighters and EMS members rescued two workers caught on a window washer rigger between the 68th and 69th...
View ArticleNew York | FDNY Lieutenant saves child in Brooklyn fire
FDNY Lt. Robert Whelan saved a child from a fire in Brooklyn on November 25. Firefighters were called to the scene of the fire on Thomas Boyland Street at approximately 2:40 p.m. Engine 283 arrived...
View ArticleNew York | Researchers produce first map of NYC subway system microbes
The microbes that call the New York City subway system home are mostly harmless, but include samples of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to drugs — and even DNA fragments associated with...
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