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FDNY Members Meet Challenges of Brooklyn Hardware Store Fire
In the early-morning hours of January 21, 2015, units responded to Brooklyn Box 1241 for a UCT911 call reporting a fire in a hardware store. The fire went to a fifth alarm for relief purposes and took almost five hours before it was placed Under Control. Tragically, one civilian died during the fire after he […]
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Tuesday, August 7, 2018, was the fourth day in a row of 90 plus degrees in New York City. As is often the case during heat waves, heavy thunderstorms developed later in the day. Around 1930 hours, the temperature was still 94 degrees and storms started to arrive in Brooklyn. Lightning was visible all around […]
On November 1, 2018, the FDNY commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Malbone Street wreck, which occurred on the Brighton Beach line of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit system in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. It was a dreadful subway crash that left almost 100 dead and more than 200 injured in its wake. The […]
On Saturday, May 26, 2018, the United States Marine Corps staged a demonstration day in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. As part of the USMC event, four rotary-winged aircraft landed in the park for a static display open to the public. In support of this display, FDNY resources were assigned for aircraft landing and takeoff operations. While […]