The FDNY promoted 97 firefighters Tuesday — including three Bravest whose fathers were either killed on 9/11 or died from exposure to toxins at Ground Zero afterward. John Bergin Jr., ...
A Long Island man who lost his heroic firefighter father in a devastating Bronx blaze two decades ago became one of the Bravest himself Friday — along with hundreds of other FDNY graduates.
FDNY Lt. John Vanderstar and Firefighter Brendan Gaffney were lauded for saving people trapped in burning buildings. There’s a reason they are called the Bravest. President Biden awarded the ...
Lt. John Vanderstar, an FDNY firefighter, received the Medal of Valor for his heroics back in Oct. 23, 2022, when he raced through raging flames in a Bronx apartment to rescue a mother and ...