UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (PIX11) — Fire crews are responding to a three-alarm fire on the Upper East Side Monday evening, ...

we were working off just what we could see on the ground," Lt. Bill Pitta of the FDNY Drone Unit said. Drone crews tell firefighters on the ground over the radio exactly where each fire is and ...

and working to identify the causes of these fires after they happen to keep New Yorkers safe in the future," FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker said Sunday in a statement. The creation of the city's ...

New York City’s ongoing drought has sparked a record 215 brush fires in just the past ... as welding shouldn’t do their work near dry grass or leaves, FDNY officials said.

It wasn’t a raging inferno or a chemical explosion or a fall from an angled ladder that took the life of FDNY Lt. Joseph Maiello. Maiello died of natural causes while on duty in his Staten ...

A massive brush fire exacerbated by the city’s ongoing drought destroyed about 4 acres of Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park, FDNY officials said Thursday. The raging blaze, which began at about 3 p ...

FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker on Wednesday added his name to the list of leaders warning about the threat posed by brush fires and, amid parched conditions, the need to stay vigilant or risk ...

According to fire officials, a passerby who was walking through the park just before 7 p.m. Friday called 911 to report smoke. By 8 p.m., the FDNY said the fire had grown to two alarms and spread ...

According to fire officials ... Borough President Vito Fossella and FDNY officials plan to urge locals to take preemptive measures to protect their homes. "We work with the State Department ...