Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NYC man falls to his death when FDNY ladder gives way as he tries to escape Brooklyn blaze A 53-year-old Brooklyn man plunged to ...

A man died after an FDNY ladder retracted during a fire rescue, causing him to plummet to the sidewalk below. Video shows the man stepping onto the ladder, just before the top section of it collapsed.

Jan. 17—Firefighters at the Great Jones Street firehouse in Lower Manhattan, New York, were in the midst of a shift change on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. By the ...