Mark Martinez for Rescue 4 said during the press conference. The boy was surprisingly calm during the ordeal, which made the FDNY’s job easier, fire officials said. An FDNY firefighter shows the ...

NEW YORK — A teenager horsing around with a friend in Queens was impaled when he stumbled into a wrought iron fence — and then freed by a quick-thinking group of New York’s bravest before ...

Mark Martinez for Rescue 4 said during the press conference. The boy was surprisingly calm during the ordeal, which made the FDNY’s job easier, fire officials said. Leading up to the impalement ...

The teen, with the fence still impaled in his leg, was transported to a hospital where the wrought iron posts were removed, FDNY officers said ... Shoemaker of FDNY Rescue 4 used a bandsaw ...

Assistant Chief John Sarrocco (center) firefighter Jason Shoemaker (right) and Lt. Mark Martinez of FDNY Rescue 4 rescued a 15-year-ol boy who was impaled on a fence in Queens. (Kerry Burke/NYDN ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — FDNY officials revealed the cause of a two-alarm house fire that broke out last Friday in Graniteville, sending five individuals to the hospital, including a 2-year-old ...

RIDGEWOOD, Queens (WABC) -- When a bizarre accident in Queens left a teenager impaled by a fence, a swift-acting FDNY rescue team helped save his life. Impaled on a wrought iron fence, a 15-year ...

The firefighters, led by FDNY Lt. Mark Martinez, approached the rescue with surgical-like dexterity, cutting the vertical and horizontal bars of the fence to transport the impaled section and the ...

A fire broke out in East Flatbush on E. 46th Street around 11 a.m. Monday morning, according to the FDNY. More than 100 emergency personnel responded to the scene. The heavy smoke impacting ...