A man got his arm caught in a meat grinder while on the job in Queens Saturday morning, police and fire officials said. The 25-year-old employee was reportedly.
In December, as a tribute to his contribution to the Fire Department both before and since the September 11 attacks, Irish tenor Ronan Tynan was made an honorary firefighter.
Tynan’s affinity with the New York Fire Department goes back a long way. In 1984, at the New York Paralympics, he became friendly with some firefighters. This longstanding friendship led him to offer to sing at the funerals of two of the three firefighters who were killed in the Father’s Day tragedy in New York in June 2001. It was at these funerals that he met Deputy Fire Chief Ray Downey, who was to be one of the many firefighters to lose his life on September 11 and at whose memorial Ronan would later sing. After the attacks on September 11, Ronan went back to New York from Washington, where he had been due to sing at the Pentagon, and tried to help where he could. As a qualified medical doctor, he offered assistance at St Vincent’s but as the hospital was not overwhelmed by casualties, his help wasn�
Despite the cord sparking the fire, it needn t have been nearly as damaging, fire officials have said. Smoke alarms were present and activated in the building at the time of the blaze, officials say. Tenants didn t call right away. One woman previously told News 4 she was confused, thinking smoke was steam from her shower.
She wasn t the only one who smelled smoke and didn t call 911 immediately, investigators have said. Ultimately, the delay in reporting caused a roughly 10-minute delay in response, which FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro previously described as an eternity in the realm of firefighting. FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro said tenants heard the fire alarms go off but waited around 10 minutes before calling the fire department to report the massive apartment fire in Queens Tuesday that ended up injuring 21 people and displacing around 90 families. Making matters worse, he said, the door to the apartment where the fire started was left open allowing for the blaze
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“What kind of guy was Michael Lynch?”
“I’ll tell you what he was,” said one of his firefighter coworkers. “There are two different kinds of guys that get on the Department. Those that got on the job, and those that get into the job. He was a guy that got into his work.”
Lynch was just 33 years old, married for five years and had two kids. He worked out a firehouse in mid-Manhattan, just a few blocks from the Ed Sullivan Theater and Broadway itself. Lynch had been on the job 11 years and was close to being promoted.
Ladder Company 4 – along with Engine 54 – responded from their station after the first Tower was hit. They were among many firefighters who went dashing upstairs while the occupants were fleeing the other way. Amid the chaos, those escaping actually stopped and applauded the firefighters – wearing over 50 pounds of gear and carrying tools and equipment – who were running up the stairwells.
For 7 New Yorkers, a pandemic year s fight for the future
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1of21Nicolae Hent sits for a portrait in his taxi outside a midtown Manhattan hotel, in New York on March 19, 2021. “Not an easy year to go through in 2020, Hent said. Hopefully, this one will be better, but God knows.”John Minchillo/APShow MoreShow Less
2of21FILE - In this April 6, 2020, file photo, taxi driver Nicolae Hent cleans and disinfects his cab before starting work in New York. A taxi driver s job was already tougher in recent years with the arrival of ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. The empty streets during the coronavirus pandemic have made things more difficult.Matt Rourke/APShow MoreShow Less