NEW YORK (AP) -- Two window washers who were left dangling from a tilting World Trade Center scaffold said Friday that they knew they would be safe once they saw firefighters.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Two window washers left dangling from the nation's tallest skyscraper, 1 World Trade Center, were "doing well" after their release from a hospital, their employer said.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Three retired firefighters who worked at ground zero have died on the same day from cancer, an illness that many fear might be connected to toxic World Trade Center dust released on Sept. 11, fire officials said Thursday.
About 1,500 minorities who took New York City fire department entrance exams that were found to be biased will be eligible to receive back pay totaling $98 million, a black firefighters' group that had sued the city over racial discrimination said Tuesday.