A Portland firefighter shocked three times trying to save a local family’s home is out of the hospital tonight. Leo Call was fighting an attic fire at a house on Southwest Dolph Court Monday. Oily rags left on a deck caught fire in the sun and the flames quickly spread to the home. Call was...Read More
The firefighters union plans to sue City Hall to get rid of the centralized 911 call system — which they say has created dangerous delays, including to a towering Bronx fire yesterday. A 911 call for the five-alarm blaze came in at 2:40 a.m., and because of human error was not relayed to the FDNY...Read More
A firefighter was injured in a suspicious fire in the Burnside neighborhood and, in another blaze overnight on the South Side, a daycare center was heavily damaged in the West Elsdon neighborhood, authorities said. The injured firefighter was taken to Little Company of Mary Hospital after a shingle fell on his head, authorities said. He...Read More
