The country’s chief fire officers have warned that equipment and fire stations could deteriorate if money is not provided by the Government.

Van Morrison’s Into the Mystic seems to nestle on the humid air and float away off to the Ramapo Mountains, visible in the distance beyond the ballpark’s centre field fence.

The mother of a New York fireman killed in the 9/11 terror attacks said he was very proud of his Irish roots after the family was presented with the first Certificate of Irish Heritage.

THROUGHOUT the spring of 1999, 11-year-old Novak Djokovic had no way of knowing if his family’s Banjica apartment would feel the wrath of the US-backed NATO bombs raining down on Belgrade.

FIREFIGHTERS scaled a ladder to grab a baby who was dangled out of a fifth-floor window during a Bronx apartment fire.

An ice storm wiped away the traditional green stripe painted on Fifth Avenue, New York, but it could not keep away thousands of St Patrick’s Day celebrants from the city’s parade today.

Fireman’s son Paul McCartney and his wife have donated a painting from their private collection to the members of the New York Fire Department – and the subject is something likely very close to their hearts.

STEP inside Ladder 3 firehouse in lower eastside Manhattan and you read the following on a chalkboard just inside the door.

SOMEWHERE under the rubble of New York’s Twin Towers Mike Moran lost his beloved brother John.

After nearly a week of delays, space shuttle Endeavour blasted off under heavy protection on a flight to deliver a new crew to the international space station.