New York City Fire Department (FDNY)

FDNY firefighters responding to an emergency.

The Empire State Building beamed in red, white and yellow on the night of April 12 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the NYC Fire Chiefs Association!

FDNY members battled a 3-alarm fire on St. Marks Place, Brooklyn, on April 8.

FDNY members respond to a 10-alarm fire in Brooklyn, 2006.

FDNY members respond during a terrorism drill in Queens, 2010.

FDNY EMS members package a patient during a demonstration in Rockefeller Center, 2006.

FDNY members respond to a fire in Manhattan, 2004.

FDNY Ladder 59 responding to a fire responding to a fire in Manhattan, 2013.

Gauges on an FDNY engine.

FDNY fire boat Three Forty Three on the East River.

Morihei Ueshiba

FDNY firefighters respond to a 3-alarm fire in Manhattan, 2004.

FDNY members respond to a 4-alarm fire in the Bronx, 2002.

The FDNY responded to a plane that skidded off the runway at LaGuardia Airport on March 5. Twenty-eight people were injured, all non-life-threatening.

Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro swore in Rev. Ann Kansfield (left), of the Greenpoint Reformed Church in Brooklyn, as the first-ever female FDNY Chaplain on March 3.

FDNY probationary firefighters train using the car fire simulator at the Fire Academy.

The FDNY marked the 40th anniversary of the Telephone Company Fire on Feb. 27, 2015. View more photos and learn why the fire was so devastating: on.nyc.gov/1LRC474