Firefighter Jason Shoemaker of FDNY Rescue 4 used a bandsaw to cut through three vertical bars and the horizontal top piece of the fence — preventing further injury by carefully keeping the sections ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Borough President Vito Fossella and District Attorney Michael McMahon honored four Staten Island ...

PAUL HASHAGEN, a Firehouse ® contributing editor, is a retired FDNY firefighter who was assigned to Rescue 1 in Manhattan. He is also an ex-chief of the Freeport, NY, Fire Department. Hashagen is ...

The teen, with the fence still impaled in his leg, was transported to a hospital where the wrought iron posts were removed, FDNY officers said. A teenager horsing around with a friend in Queens ...

Mark Martinez for Rescue 4 said during the press conference. The boy was surprisingly calm during the ordeal, which made the FDNY’s job easier, fire officials said. An FDNY firefighter shows the ...

RIDGEWOOD, Queens (WABC) -- When a bizarre accident in Queens left a teenager impaled by a fence, a swift-acting FDNY rescue team helped save his life. Impaled on a wrought iron fence, a 15-year ...

Assistant Chief John Sarrocco (center) firefighter Jason Shoemaker (right) and Lt. Mark Martinez of FDNY Rescue 4 rescued a 15-year-ol boy who was impaled on a fence in Queens. (Kerry Burke/NYDN ...

The child was listed in critical condition at Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze, according to the FDNY. Firefighters received multiple reports of individuals trapped in a blaze at ...