Members of the NYPD and FDNY football teams were supposed to line up and shake hands after playing in the “Fun City Bowl” (a charity game) this weekend. Instead, because everyone involved is very big and tough, there was a shoving match and some punches thrown and a lot of yelling.

More than 200 FDNY firefighters have been fighting what is now a six-alarm fire at a warehouse in Williamsburg since early this morning, The New York Times reports. More than 200 firefighters are working to contain the fire from both land and boats on the East River.

Yesterday, the New York Daily News ran a story that sounds salacious at first blush. "EXCLUSIVE: New FDNY firefighter starred in at least 10 gay porn flicks before joining Bravest" reads the headline. I admit it, I clicked!

New York City firefighters emerge from a hatch in the sidewalk after evacuating passengers from an F express subway train that derailed in Queens on Friday. Image via Julie Jacobson/AP.

An FDNY firefighter is being charged with grand larceny and burglary by police after making fake 911 calls and then robbing firehouses after firefighters had gone off to respond to the fake emergencies.

An FDNY EMT dispatcher stayed on the phone with a stroke victim for eight hours as rescuers tried to pinpoint where the distressed and slurring woman had fallen.

It's a tale as old as time. Cat goes up tree, cop climbs tree to save cat. Cop get stuck in tree, firefighters must save cat, cop.

It's a rough month to be a racist civil service worker in New York.

A three-alarm fire broke out at South Street Seaport on Pier 17 this afternoon.

Back in 2008, the New York Fire Department canceled its annual beefcake photo calendar because one of the men pictured had some blue movies out there. Cut to 2011 when the FDNA is so strapped for cash that the department has resurrected the guilty pleasure.

Watch out if you plan on filing a race discrimination complaint against FDNY — you just might find a noose hanging in your locker. At least that's what Gregory Seabrook, a communications electrician for the department, says happened to him last Thursday.

Starting in 2012 the FDNY will officially reinstate its shirtless beefcake calendar, but the money it raises won't go to charity as it did before. No, now proceeds will go to the cash-strapped fire department itself.

Today we wrote very serious things about Time magazine's boy genius Mark Zuckerberg and the barely literate FDNY entrance exam, and how did you respond? The only way you lovable perverts know how: with half-naked guy pictures.

If you want to become a New York City firefighter, you'd better hit the books, because the department's stringent entrance exam requires that you understand things like electricity and how to open doors.

Anderson Cooper's dangerous Greenwich Village converted firehouse home wasn't much help when his neighbor's apartment caught fire early today. The FDNY still managed to put out the blaze quickly. There are too many Anderson Cooper/firemen jokes to pick just one!

LADIES! It's time to purchase a hunk-tastic FDNY calendar for "charity." Robin Roberts surely will. And fellas, next time remember to be "unapologetically handsome" and you'll be halfway to being without a shirt on Good Morning America.

[Firefighters investigate an empty suitcase left unattended on 43rd Street. The situation sorted itself out a few minutes later, but now is not the time to walk away from your shit! Image (and story) via MarkLyon's Flickr]

Or: "Firefighter Becomes Fire Hazard." A woman came home on St. Patrick's Eve to find a passed-out man in an FDNY uniform blocking her door. Thank God she had a Blackberry to capture the special moment on video.

• Lee Gomes doesn't care what all you Chris Anderson cultists think; The Long Tail is full of shit. Inevitable Anderson riposte t/k. [WSJ]
• Mariane Pearl, widow of slain WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl, writes her first column for Glamour. Ann Coulter, 45, immediately calls her a whore. [Glamour]
• Hard-hitting Observer investigation reveals that some firefighters in the "FDNY Calendar of Heroes" come from out of state. [NYO]