An FDNY chief who oversaw the department’s firefighting boats — including one involved in a fatal East River crash last year — has been forced to turn in his retirement papers, co… ...

A visiting Belgian firefighter was killed in 2022 during an East River pleasure cruise on an FDNY fireboat because the vessel was operating recklessly at an "unsafe speed" and all sorts of agency ...

The vessel, the John J. Harvey — a privately-owned fireboat that once belonged to the FDNY and is named for a department pilot killed in the line of duty — is 130 feet long and weighs 268 tons.

New York City will shell out $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit by the widow of a visiting Belgian firefighter killed when an FDNY fireboat crashed during an unauthorized pleasure cruise along the ...

The FDNY Fireboat McKean is docked at Panco Petroleum Company in Stony Point June 30, 2023. The McKean ferried people out of Manhattan on 9/11 and then responded to rescue plane passengers from ...