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Trench rescue operations with FDNY Lieutenant Todd Smith
Season 8 Episode 96
A trench is considered a temporary excavation where both the length of the floor and the depth of the trench exceeds the width of the floor. Construc…
2 years, 5 months ago
Fighting a Fire in the Sky with FDNY Battalion Chiefs Anthony Pascocello and Mark Rosenbaum
Season 8 Episode 95
Manhattan FDNY companies were dispatched to a high-rise building under construction with reports of a crane on fire. The construction crane was posi…
2 years, 7 months ago
Hope and spirituality on the Department’s darkest day with FDNY Chaplain Monsignor John Delendick
Season 8 Episode 94
An FDNY Chaplain since 1996, Monsignor John Delendick has comforted, advised, and ministered to the Department’s members and families for nearly thre…
2 years, 8 months ago
Heavy clutter makes for difficult rescues with FDNY Lieutenant Chris Walter and Firefighters Roger Buck and Joseph Andres
Season 8 Episode 93
Members of Ladder Company 108 carried out multiple rescues amongst challenging conditions and heavy clutter at a Brooklyn fire. In this episode, Lieu…
2 years, 9 months ago
Emergency medical care in an elevator shaft with FDNY Lieutenant Shlomo Winkler and Paramedic Kira Watkins
Season 8 Episode 92
Two people plummeted five stories down an elevator shaft at the Bronx Terminal Market. Lieutenant Shlomo Winkler, then a Rescue Paramedic, and Parame…
2 years, 10 months ago
Evolution of fighting wind-impacted fires in New York City with FDNY Battalion Chief Gerald Tracy (Retired)
Season 8 Episode 91
Some of the most difficult fires FDNY members face are wind impacted fires. It's been more than two decades since the Department began studying the i…
2 years, 11 months ago
Neonatal resuscitation, a vital response and emotional reunion, with FDNY EMTs Silverio Moreno and Johnathan Rivera
Season 8 Episode 90
During the midst of the COVID pandemic outbreak in New York City, Tracy Harris began having severe abdominal pain that prompted her to call 9-1-1 for…
3 years ago
Manhattan roof rope rescues with FDNY Battalion Chief Anthony Pascocello, Lieutenants Adrienne Walsh and Joseph Decker, and Firefighters Darren Harsch, Christian Wellinger and Artur Podgorski
Season 8 Episode 89
FDNY units saved multiple residents from a three-alarm fire in a Manhattan high-rise. The explosive fire, which was ignited by an e-bike’s lithium-io…
3 years, 1 month ago
Climbing the Ranks with FDNY Battalion Chiefs Michele Fitzsimmons and Rochelle “Rocky” Jones (Retired)
Season 8 Episode 88
Two trailblazing women of the FDNY, Battalion Chief Rochelle “Rocky” Jones (Retired) and Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons discuss their successful…
3 years, 2 months ago
Organ donation advocacy with Kristina Moon, wife of fallen FDNY Firefighter William P. Moon II, and retired members Patrick Reynolds and Terrence Jordan
Season 8 Episode 87
Kristina Moon's husband, Firefighter William P. Moon II, or Billy as everyone called him, suffered a fatal injury while preparing for a training dril…
3 years, 3 months ago