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 ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A house fire in Rosebank prompted a large FDNY response on Thursday morning. The blaze was reported at 54 Wiman Place at 10:15 a.m., a spokesperson for the fire department said.