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In 2019, Brian Kevan was diagnosed with lymphoma. Since then, he has undergone numerous rounds of chemo and other treatments, and nothing has worked.
It took almost 170 firefighters to get the fire under control, but neighbors also rushed to the scene and helped get people out.
Nigro acknowledged that while the department has hired more people of color, inclusion remains the most difficult piece.
As CBS2's Political Reporter Marcia Kramer reports, the mayor is now looking to expand the mandate that forced educators to get shots or lose their jobs.
Officials said a 4-year-old boy had to be rescued from the Brooklyn home's second-story window.
According to The New York Times, it started after the murder of George Floyd.
What started as an FDNY pilot project seems to have landed a permanent spot.
This year's graduating class represents the increasing diversity of the department.
Smoke and flames could be seen coming out of windows on the fifth floor.
Police said they're searching for a man who rolled the bike onto the tracks.
Police say the man entered a fire station on Melrose Avenue near East 155th Street in the South Bronx through an open gate.
Officials have said 75% of the firefighters who responded on 9/11 now have some form of illness.
The names of the thousands of lives lost in the terror attacks were read out loud, a tradition that was put on pause last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Nigro was immediately thrust into the command of rescue operations of an attack of historic proportions.
By all accounts, the response by the FDNY to the attacks on the World Trade Center 20 years ago were incredibly heroic, and ultimately devastating.
The mantle is filled with faces of firefighters who lost their lives on Sept. 11, 2001. The firehouse is home to Engine 3/Ladder 12/Battalion 7 -- the "West Side Warriors." It lost five men.
Jerry Sanford was working as a public information officer in Florida when a fire chief there showed him the antique helmet with the number 42 on it, which Sanford recognized.
The foundation's goal is to help promote fire safety education and help the FDNY better protect New York.
More than 2,000 confirmed cancers and illnesses have been linked to the toxic dust at Ground Zero.
Matt Komorowski and the other members of Ladder Company 6 went into the north tower searching for survivors, trying to climb more than 90 flights of stairs as debris fell around them.
The FDNY said Sunday fire marshals arrested a man for allegedly setting a ticket booth on fire at the 18th Avenue Feast of Santa Rosalia in Brooklyn.
There was a wild rescue on Sunday in Queens, after a man fell down a hole 30 feet deep.
The fire spread to two upper floors and took firefighters a couple of hours to put out.
The fire commissioner said since the beginning of this year, there have already been 60 fires caused by these batteries, and this is the third fatal incident.
The FDNY said a woman was able to make it to the shore with no injuries.
