Union Spars With FDNY Over Helicopter, Deutsche Fire

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Fire union officials are sparring with the city’s fire department over whether a helicopter could have helped during a seven-alarm fire in the former Deutsche Bank building in which two firefighters died.

The fire department often borrows police helicopters during major high-rise fires to help with communication and sometimes uses them to dump water on a blaze. But fire union officials said yesterday that the FDNY should have its own aircraft, a proposal fire department officials say has been considered and discarded in years past.

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