It was 8:46 Thursday morning and FDNY Engine 3, Ladder 12 was ordered into formation by Chief John Gormley. There they stood in dress blues, shoulder-to-shoulder, in straight lines that went six deep.

A man died after an FDNY ladder retracted during a fire rescue, causing him to plummet to the sidewalk below. Video shows the man stepping onto the ladder, just before the top section of it collapsed.

The Brooklyn immigrant who plunged to his death as FDNY firefighters worked to save him from a fire in his apartment above a Brooklyn bodega fell after the rescue ladder he stepped onto suddenly ...

NEW YORK — The Brooklyn immigrant who plunged to his death as FDNY firefighters worked to save him from a fire in his apartment above a Brooklyn bodega fell after the rescue ladder he stepped onto ...

Jan. 17—Firefighters at the Great Jones Street firehouse in Lower Manhattan, New York, were in the midst of a shift change on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. By the ...

A source close to the FDNY tells News 12 that the ladder involved in the rescue attempt has been taken out of service. That source also confirmed that no firefighters have been disciplined, and the ...