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The FDNY's motto is "New York's Bravest" for fire, and "New York's Best" for EMS. The FDNY serves more than 8.5 million residents within a 302-square-mile (780 km 2) area. [8] The FDNY headquarters is located at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, [9] and the FDNY Fire Academy is located on Randalls Island. [10]
Albany County. 1 – Albany Fire Department (New York) (8 Stations) 2 – Altamont Fire District Station 1. 3 – Berne Fire District Station 66 ,67 (2 Stations) 4 – Boght Community Fire District 1. 5 – Coeymans Fire District 1 (1 Station only) 6 – Coeymans Volunteer Fire Company Station 1. 7 – Cohoes F.D. Station 1 (3 Stations) 8 ...
This article is a list of the emergency and first responder agencies that responded to the September 11 attacks against the United States, on September 11, 2001.These agencies responded during and after the attack and were part of the search-and-rescue, security, firefighting, clean-up, investigation, evacuation, support and traffic control on September 11.
Great Fire of New York. Coordinates: 40.707°N 74.010°W. April 1836 lithograph of the destruction of the Merchant's Exchange Building on Wall Street, during the Great Fire. The 1835 Great Fire of New York was one of three fires that rendered extensive damage to New York City in the 18th and 19th centuries. The fire occurred in the middle of an ...
The Brooklyn Gas Light Company was established in 1825 to provide gas in Brooklyn, which at the time was a separate municipality from New York City, but the company did not begin supplying gas until 1849. [31] [32] The company spent $20,000 (equivalent to $678,222 in 2023) to erect a brownstone building at 180 Remsen Street in 1856. [16]
The Brooklyn Fire Department ( BFD) was a professional fire department that provided fire protection and rescue services to the city of Brooklyn, New York, within modern-day New York City, from 1869 to 1898. The Brooklyn Fire Department, a paid firefighting force, replaced a 3,000-person volunteer fire department that was poorly equipped to ...
The Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn (MDC Brooklyn)is a United States federal administrative detention facilityin the Sunset Parkneighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. It holds male and female prisoners of all security levels. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday appointed Robert S. Tucker, the head of a private security firm, to head the city's fire department. Tucker, 54, takes over from Laura Kavanagh, the first ...