Four people were killed and several firefighters were injured in a devastating blaze in Queens, New York City, which caused a building to collapse on Monday afternoon

Fire chiefs and commissioners are pushing Albany to allow small stipends for volunteer firefighters, warning that response times are rising as the ranks thin.

Five trainers from the New York Fire Department will be coming to AMED twice within the next couple weeks to instruct all the organization’s full-time employees on how to deal with “man vs. machine” accidents.

An explosion tore through a rural upstate New York church and injured five people, including the pastor and firefighters.