For the first time, the City of Binghamton’s Fire Department is awarded a Class 1 elite ranking from the Insurance Services Office. It’s the highest rating given by the organization.
A television news videotape of the drowning of two Binghamton firefighters in 1975 continues to be used in training emergency workers.
The 15-minute tape documents the tragic sequence of events at the Rockbottom Dam that resulted in the deaths of city Fire Chief John Cox and Captain Donald McGeever...
A remembrance service is being held September 29 for three Binghamton firefighters who lost their lives trying to rescue rafters at the Rockbottom Dam forty years ago.
A retired Lieutenant of the Binghamton Fire Department is being remembered for his long service to the community.
66 year old John Shaw, Junior died August 5.
Shaw served 32 years in the City Fire Department, retiring in 2005.