FDNY

Now here’s some seriously uplifting news! Captain Tonya Boyd will become the first African-American woman in the New York Fire Department to be the deputy chief on November 2, 2017. Boyd joined the FDNY’s Emergency Medical Services while attending college as a way to pay her tuition. While doing that, she had no idea her […]

Jacque Reid talks to Danae Mines, the first woman to be featured in FDNY Calendar of Heroes. “I wanted to show representation of the 41 women that are on the squad. The guys were really excited and they wished me good look. They actually thought I was going to automatically get it,” Mines said. See […]

One of New York’s bravest women is spicing up the New York Fire Department’s beefcake calendar. Danae Mines has done something no other woman has…