Kavanagh directly called out retailers like Amazon and Walmart, which she says continue to sell batteries ... with FDNY and City officials earlier this year to commit to increasing fire safety ...

The fire broke out around 7 a.m. at the building located on 15th Street off Third Avenue, just as many residents were starting their day.

NEW YORK-- A massive house fire in Brooklyn and a huge barge fire in Queens this week were caused by lithium-ion batteries, FDNY investigators ... meet national safety standards to ensure only ...

Kathy Hochul passed a package of bills cracking down on the batteries. Luckily, the blaze was under control within less than an hour, by around 3:20 a.m., the FDNY said. “The fire was pretty ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- FDNY said lithium-ion batteries are to blame for ... batteries to special waste drop-off sites. Fire officials are also hoping a safety bill introduced by New York Congressman ...

While the total number of fires caused by lithium-ion batteries in micromobility devices is roughly unchanged — 141 this year compared with 148 at the same time last year — the number of resulting ...

In February, Fazil Khan, 27, died when a lithium-ion battery caused a fire at an apartment building in Harlem. To avoid fires, the FDNY recommends ... cracking down on safety standards for lithium ...

A firefighter was hospitalized early Thursday after a fire erupted in a Queens electric scooter store, the FDNY said. The blaze broke out inside the store near 104th St. in Hollis at about 2:30 a ...

Two former New York City Fire Department chiefs were arrested in connection to "a pay-to-play bribery scheme," according to a ...