At the FDNY’s Medal Day celebration, Firefighter Michael Kotzo will receive the Ganci Medal for being “instrumental in two of ...

Crews conducted multiple rescues in Snow Canyon State Park Saturday, with one rescue taking four hours and calling for a High ...

After a man fell more than 30 feet from the side of the rock quarry at Greenway Farms and the Chattanooga Fire Department set ...

But instead, they became stuck as well. The fire district said that after about an hour of maneuvering and a vertical rope rescue, the teenager and both dogs were brought to the surface.

The FDNY conducts roughly one rope rescue a year, sometimes none at all. On that frosty day in February, Kotzo and his team conducted three within a matter of minutes, FDNY officials said.