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February 21, 2019
This FDNY Pro Talk with Lieutenant Joseph Yolles was recorded for the 2018 FDNY Symposium with support from the FDNY Foundation and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. In this Talk, Lieutenant Yolles offers tips for operating an ambulance safely on city streets. About the Presenter Lieutenant […]
February 14, 2019
A Tuesday morning fire in the hotel Arpit Palace, located in Deli, India, an area popular with tourists for its budget hotels and shopping, led to the deaths of seventeen people, police said. Additionally, a dormitory fire at the youth training complex of a Brazilian soccer […]
February 7, 2019
In what looks to be the standard operating procedure for Boko Haram, the militants targeted a small, poorly defended village along the Cameroon border on Monday morning. The fighters approached the north-eastern Nigerian border town of Rann quickly in gun trucks and motorcycles, causing panic and […]
January 31, 2019
While Australia battles record-smashing heat, interminable drought and deadly bushfires, the U.S. is in the grip of an intense cold snap, with temperatures plunging to historic lows. Last week, Adelaide broke the record for the world’s hottest city at 46.6C (115.16F) as the American Midwest is […]
January 31, 2019
Training for an athletic event with a team brings lots of benefits, including improved performance and accountability. Even when participants compete as individuals, the opportunity to connect with others is there. In this episode, FDNY Firefighters David Guilford and Michael Reno talk about their involvement with […]
January 24, 2019
This past Monday, as United States officials were gathering to meet with the Taliban in Doha Qatar to discuss a peace treaty, the insurgent group was executing a deadly attack in Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan killing as many as 100 people. The complex attack against the secure […]
January 17, 2019
American soldiers and military contractors were among the dead in two deadly explosive attacks. ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that targeted a popular market place in the city of Manbij, Syria. Manbij a heavily disputed city in northern Syria is currently under protection of […]
January 15, 2019
This FDNY Pro Talk with Battalion Chief Brian O’Donnell was recorded for the 2018 FDNY Symposium with support from the FDNY Foundation and the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. In this Talk, Chief O’Donnell reviewed Department operations at a Brooklyn high-rise multiple dwelling fire with victims. About […]
January 10, 2019
A wave of protests that began in November 2018 over increased fuel taxes, known as the yellow vest (“gilets jaunes”) movement has spread across France, and to other countries, as well. This past week, cities across France had a total of 50,000 protestors, which ranged in […]
January 3, 2019
Despite many claims, and jokes, that an intense blue light over Astoria, Queens was the sign of an alien invasion, the cause was more terrestrial as a ConEd transformer at one its substations exploded. There were “scattered” power outages, some subway trains were temporarily stalled and […]
March 21, 2019
It is hard to imagine a summer in New York City without air conditioning or a kitchen without a refrigerator to keep food and drinks cold. Thanks to modern refrigeration, air-conditioning and refrigeration units of all shapes, sizes and capacities, they have many commercial and residential […]
March 21, 2019
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 […]
March 21, 2019
In the worst mass shooting in New Zealand history, an Australian man with white supremacist beliefs and connections entered two mosques in the city of Christchurch on the nation’s South Island, shooting anyone he found in a rampage that killed 50 and wounded 50 others. The […]
March 14, 2019
An Ethiopian Airlines plane crashed this week, killing 157 passengers and crew, and has similarities to a crash (based on radar data and other information) of the same Boeing model off Indonesia last October. Several countries, including the U.S., have grounded the Boeing 737 Max 8 […]
March 7, 2019
The National Weather Service reported thirty four tornadoes struck Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina over the weekend. An EF4 twister killed 23 in Lee County, Alabama. The victims ranged in age from 6 to 89 and included seven members of one family. Most of the […]
February 28, 2019
At least 154 people have died and more than 200 others have been hospitalized after consuming tainted unregulated moonshine, known locally as “country-made liquor” in India, officials said Monday. Police believe those who drank the liquor contracted methyl-alcohol poisoning from methanol that was added to the […]
February 28, 2019
Rapid fire events are a rare phenomenon that even the most seasoned Firefighter may never encounter during their careers. And while there is much still to learn about what environments or tactics are best suited to avoid them, there are some patterns to their occurrences. In […]