STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A house fire in Rosebank prompted a large FDNY response on Thursday morning ... and we got him with a ladder,” said Battalion Chief Bill Simpson.

EUGENE STOLOWSKI is a 12-year veteran of the FDNY assigned to Ladder 27. He has worked in Engine 21 and Engine 89 on the rotation program. On January 23, 2005, Stolowski was one of six members ...

It wasn’t a raging inferno or a chemical explosion or a fall from an angled ladder that took the life of FDNY Lt. Joseph Maiello. Maiello died of natural causes while on duty in his Staten ...