Tag: FDNY
Since Sunday, Con Edison has responded to over 200 manhole explosions throughout the city. So far at least one person has been hospitalized: a 71-year-old man who was struck in the head while walking his dog in Park Slope Monday morning, and a second person was injured. Other incidents of manhole explosions include one on […]
An underground fire temporarily forced out hundreds of Astoria residents on Thursday afternoon, according to a report from DNAinfo. The flames shot up through openings in the ground, including “sidewalk cracks, manholes and sewer grates,” even setting some garbage on fire along 36th Street between 23rd and 24th avenues. “There was flames coming off from […]
For two hours on Monday afternoon, the city’s emergency response system was down. Dispatchers had to go straight analog by writing down calls and radio-ing them in from 2:15 – 4:05 PM, according to the Daily News. Perhaps the most frightening part is that when the computerized system is down, dispatchers have no way of […]
Ebola is now a loaded word and according to the New York Post, the FDNY issued a memo telling personnel not to use it on the radio should the highly influential virus touch down in New York. The preferred designation is “F/T” for fever/travel. Officials are worried that the E-word could cause a city-wide scare […]
Everyone knows New York’s law enforcement agencies will go to great lengths to catch a terrorist fireworks enthusiast, but this is a new low. There’s the NYPD posters offering $1,000 for “information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons possessing or distributing fireworks,” Bloomberg’s insistence that sparklers remain illegal throughout the entire state, and […]
