FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro acknowledges the twenty one legacies graduating today from the FDNY Fire Academy. Each is following in the footsteps of his or her father, who made the Supreme Sacrifice in service to our city. | New York City Fire Department (FDNY)

FDNY Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro announced today that Fire Marshals arrested and charged Peter Weyand, 33, for breaking into the Yeshiva University Schottenstein Residence and using matches intended for a Chanukah menorah to set three separate fires in the building, which was occupied by sleeping students at the time. Firefighters responded to 119 East 29th Street in Manhattan at 3:50 a.m. on Friday, December 20, for reports of a fire on the first floor. Units arrived within five minutes.