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Apr

06

FDNY Foundation Dinner

The FDNY Foundation raises over $1.7 million at their annual dinner. The FDNY Foundation Dinner also appears on My Fox NY. Click here to view the video

Mar

27

Wharton Business School helps the FDNY

On Friday March 23, a group of Wharton Business School Venture Leadership Fellows helped the FDNY improve the FDNY Firefighter for a Day program. The program teaches leadership, teamwork and crisis management to corporations by placing them in hands on firefighting scenarios. The Wharton fellows helped to train the FDNY officers on how to better translate firefighting best practices into the business world.

Mar

08

Change your Clocks, Change your Batteries Events

The FDNY Foundation wants to remind everyone to change the batteries in your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors when you change your clocks this weekend for Daylight Saving Time.

All weekend, at twenty locations throughout New York City, members of the FDNY Fire Safety Education Unit will be distributing batteries for smoke detectors to New Yorkers.

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Feb

10

Act of Valor (film) donates $10,000

At a special early screening for FDNY and NYPD members, the actors and directors of the film Act of Valor donated $10,000 to the FDNY Foundation and $10,000 to the NYPD Foundation.

Jan

25

FDNY Foundation Receives Donation from 5.11 Tactical Clothing Company

(L to R) First Deputy Commissioner Don Shacknai, Chief of Department Edward Kilduff, Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano, 5.11 Tactical Clothing Company CEO Dan Costa, Chairman of the FDNY Foundation Stephen L. Ruzow, Chief of EMS Abdo Nahmod, and Assistant Chief of EMS Operations Jerry Gombo.

The FDNY Foundation received a generous $63,000 donation from 5.11 Tactical Clothing Company on Jan. 24, in remembrance of the 9/11 tragedy.

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Jan

23

Jan

19

FDNY urges New Yorkers to have working smoke and co alarms

After a fatal fire and two carbon monoxide incidents with fatalities and serious injuries in three days, the FDNY strongly urges all New Yorkers to have working smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) detectors in their homes.

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Dec

29

CO Detector Bill Signed

NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL: Committee on Housing and Buildings signed a Bill to Amend the Administrative Code of the City of New York on Carbon Monoxide Alarms.

Click on the link below to read the Testimony of Lt. Anthony Mancuso of the New York City Fire Department Bureau of Fire Safety Education

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