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(MONDAY, 6PM) A retired FDNY Assistant Chief, he rose through the ranks from EMT in the old NYC EMS to senior leadership over the course of a distinguished 36-year career. With deep experience in emergency medical operations, public safety management, and crisis leadership—both in the field and administratively—he helped shape how pre-hospital care is delivered
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If you’ve ever seen the French Connection, you’re familiar with the iconic car scene, the movie came out in 1971. Ironically that same year, Lt. Commander Vernon Geberth, then a detective, lived a real life version of it. Interrupting a midday mob hit involving a heist of diamonds, he not only chased the murderous mobsters
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From 1993 through 2011, seven women in the NYC-Long Island area were savagely murdered. Each with different backgrounds and unfortunate circumstances of some sort, all meeting the same violent end. As the victims were gradually discovered, including four in Gilgo Beach in December 2010, the burning question for decades remained: Who would do this? Rodney
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The year was 1999. To that point in what was at the time a 15-year career, Roger Clemens had done just about everything. A multiple time All Star, Cy Young Award winner, two 20 strikeout games under his belt. Yet, one thing remained missing: a World Series ring. When he was traded to the Yankees
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A salute for the A-Team. No not the one from television with Mr. T (though they’re pretty cool too) but the real life A-Team of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit. No matter how heinous the charges and by extension the criminal accused of those charges, it is these men and women who with no hesitation
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(MONDAY, 6PM) After a 5 month hiatus, we’re back. And as all new episodes of the Mic’d In New Haven podcast air once again, I reach into the vault to bring you this previously recorded interview from February. My guest? He began his NYPD career in 2001 as part of the storied “9/11 Class.” Starting
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An update on my life and where things stand Friday, June 13, 2025. The end of Week 16 of a 23 week intensive fire training in New Haven, Connecticut. As circumstances would have it, it would also unfortunately mark the end of my tenure at the academy as a member of the New Haven Fire
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For the first time since 2000, the New York Knicks are Eastern Conference Finals bound May 21, 2000. On a warm night in Miami, the New York Knicks took on their arch rival Heat for the fourth consecutive postseason and yet again, the series had gone the distance. In a rock fight of a contest
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In the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, the service can be anything. A rescue on a pin job here, protection for a dignitary there, and of course the tactical assignments. Getting the perp is never easy because the formula changes with the circumstances of each job. Plus, you’re in hostile territory on the suspect’s own terf.
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Sometimes it’s not even me asking the questions that lead to the best stories on the show but rather the questions of the guests in the live chat that produce a rather memorable tale. Shoutout to audience member (and nephew of the guest) Jeff Warner whose question led to this, a recounting of a homicide
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