The first female FDNY Deputy Chief ever was promoted Friday, as top brass hailed her for “shattering the glass ceiling” in the male-dominated field. Battalion Chief Michele Fitzsimmons — a ...

Jeffrey Facinelli, 47, was promoted from battalion chief to deputy chief as more than 800 friends and family members of the FDNY gathered in the Ocean Breeze Track and Field Facility on Staten Island.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A house fire in Rosebank prompted a large FDNY response on Thursday morning ... and we got him with a ladder,” said Battalion Chief Bill Simpson.