Albany Permanent Professional Firefighters Association Local 2007

08/24/2026

The Albany Firefighters Cancer and Disability Foundation would like to thank…

🚨ParkAlbany 🚨
🚨CDTA 🚨
🚨Harding Mazzotti, LLP 🚨

For their assistance in making this weekend’s fundraiser at Fidens Brewing Company a little bit easier for all the attendees!

There will be parking available at the Albany Parking Authority Quackenbush Garage, located at 25 Orange Street.

A free shuttle provided by CDTA will be traveling from the parking garage to the event.

And for those who need it, free Uber rides home will be provided by Harding and Mazzotti!

Thank you all for your contributions to help make our fundraiser a success! We hope to see you all there!

08/22/2026

“C” platoon companies are operating on a house fire in the 300 block of Clinton Ave in the Arbor Hill neighborhood. Truck Co 1 was first due with fire from a window in the rear. Bn 2 has the command

08/22/2026

🔥 JOIN US FOR A FUNDRAISER! 🔥

On Saturday, August 29th, join us at Fidens Brewing Co. in Albany for a family-friendly afternoon of community, support, and fundraising for Albany Fire Battalion Chief Wayne Brennan and DGS Supervisor Anthony Hughes, who were seriously injured in a fuel pump explosion earlier this month.

Enjoy live music throughout the afternoon by the Albany Rock Pit Band and the Erin Harkes Band while you bring the whole family, show your support, and help make a difference for two members of our community who need it most.

Both men are on the road to recovery, and we’re coming together to help support them and their families during this difficult time. ❤️‍🔥

🍻 Fidens Brewing Co.
📍 897 Broadway, Albany, NY
🕑 2:00–6:00 PM
🎶 Live music by the Albany Rock Pit Band and Erin Harkes Band
🚒 Hosted by the Albany Firefighters Cancer & Disability Foundation

💰 Can’t make it? You can still help!
Visit AFCDF.ORG/DONATE to make a donation.

🚌 FREE SHUTTLE: CDTA will provide transportation from the Albany Parking Authority Quackenbush Garage.

Please share this post and help us spread the word!

08/19/2026

Come see us at the fair! 🚒🔥

Albany Firefighters will be staffing the AFCDF table all week at the Altamont Fair!

Stop by and learn about the silent dangers firefighters face long after the fire is out, including the risks of cancer and other occupational illnesses.

We’ll also have AFCDF merchandise available, along with tickets for our Annual ATV Raffle!

Come say hi, learn more about our mission, and support the Albany Firefighters Cancer & Disability Foundation!

We’ll see you at the fair! 👋

08/19/2026

“D” platoon companies are operating on an apartment fire in the 100 block of North Allen St in the Pine Hills Neighborhood. Engine Co 7 was first due with smoke from the windows. Bn 2 has the command and reports quick knock down.

08/18/2026

178 years ago today, the Albany City landscape was significantly changed leading to the frame work of the modern day Albany Fire Department.

The Great Fire of Albany started in the area of Herkimer St and Broadway in the South End/Pastures neighborhood in 1848. Volunteer fire companies, who served Albany at that time, were quickly overwhelmed with the rapid fire spread from high winds and high temperatures of the day. By the time the fire was finally under control, nearly 600 buildings had been destroyed, along with several boats in the river and several lives had been lost. Mutual aid had been summoned from departments including Troy, West Troy (Watervliet) , Greenbush (Rensselaer) and Cohoes, requiring men to pull their hand pumpers by foot many miles to Albany.

Many reforms followed the fire, including building codes, more regulations of the volunteer fire companies and eventually total elimination of the volunteers in favor of professional firefighters being on duty in the firehouses and ready to respond.

08/17/2026

Albany Firefighters welcome our newest hire, Joseph (JJ) Hollenbeck, who came to our department as a lateral hire from another local department.

JJ was sworn in today by Albany Mayor Dr. Dorcey Applyrs at a brief ceremony at city hall. We look forward to his membership in our union and we’ll see you in the firehouse soon!

08/17/2026

Last week, members from our executive board traveled to Arlington TX for the 58th International Association of Fire Fighters convention, to conduct the business of our union as a whole.

Our members joined thousands of brother and sister professional firefighters from the US and Canada at the biennial convention.

08/15/2026

Remembering our fallen brother

August 15, 1993 - LODD
Battalion Chief/District Chief Howard R. Schmitt, 55
Albany Fire Department. Albany, New York
On January 29, 1993, Chief Schmitt was directing suppression operations at the scene of a residential (gas) heating fire when he went into cardiac arrest and died in the hospital on August 15, 1993.

08/13/2026

Arrival video from this evenings 2-2-2 alarm fire on Central Ave