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 ...

A 53-year-old Brooklyn man plunged to his death when an FDNY ladder suddenly gave way as he evacuated a Monday morning blaze ...

A man in Brooklyn died after an FDNY ladder retracted during a fire rescue, causing him to plummet to the sidewalk below.

Video footage reviewed by the outlet shows Hussain climbing out of a third-floor window as smoke billowed behind him, with a firefighter waiting at the top of a retractable ladder. As Hussain stepped ...

Firefighters were shown quickly gathering around him as the father-of-four lied limp on the sidewalk. Emergency crews immediately put Hussain on a stretcher and brought in a second ladder.

The firefighter taken to the hospital in critical condition Monday from the Saratoga St fire, likely suffered a medical emergency on the aerial ladder, the Fire Chief said.

The shocking order came March 22 after a man claiming he was a staffer for Democratic Manhattan Councilwoman Carlina Rivera confronted firefighters at Ladder Co. 11, sources said. The man pedaled ...

In March 2025, social media users shared a rumor that firefighters were shot off their ladders as they tried to put out blazes after U.S. President Donald Trump mentioned such instances in a speech.

and he was tumbling backwards down the ladder, head over heels,” Choyce said. Massive fire hours later On the same day, May 12, more than 200 firefighters worked to contain a seven-alarm fire at ...

A minimum of four people — three firefighters and one "company officer," such as a captain or lieutenant — are supposed to staff an active ladder truck at all times, according to the National ...