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New York City Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, right, and New York Mayor Eric Adams, left, hold an NYFD badge after Kavanagh was sworn in during a ceremony at FDNY Engine 33/Ladder 9, Thursday, Oct 27, 2022 in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

First-ever female commissioner to lead NYC fire department

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This image provided by the New York City Fire Department shows the official department photo of firefighter Timothy Klein. Klein and a civilian died Sunday, April 24, 2022, in a Brooklyn house fire, in New York, where a ceiling partially collapsed, injuring several other firefighters, authorities said. (Courtesy of FDNY via AP)

New York City firefighter killed in Brooklyn house fire

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New York City firefighter emergency medical services personnel are vaccinated against COVID-19 at the FDNY Fire Academy in New York, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

After months on front lines, New York EMTs receive vaccines

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NYC medical data breach linked to about 10,000 patients

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Afghan security forces gather at the site of Monday's attack near the Bagram Air Base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Three American service members and a U.S. contractor were killed when their convoy hit a roadside bomb on Monday near the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, the U.S. forces said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Marine killed in Afghanistan was decorated NYC firefighter

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NYC nightclub shut down after patrons sickened by fumes

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This photo provided by New York Fire Department shows FDNY Firefighter Michael R. Davidson of Engine Company 69. Davidson was killed after a massive fire broke out at a building in the Harlem section of New York, Thursday, March 22, 2108, where a movie directed by Edward Norton was being shot. Davidson, a 15-year department veteran is survived by a wife and four children. (New York Fire Department via AP)

Traffic stops for funeral of firefighter killed on movie set

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

This combination of two undated photos provided by the New York City Fire Department shows FDNY Lt. Christopher J. Raguso, left, and FDNY Fire Marshal Christopher &quot;Tripp&quot; Zanetis. The men are among the seven service members killed when their military helicopter crashed in Iraq. (New York City Fire Department via AP)

2 NY firefighters among 7 killed in Iraq helicopter crash

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Careless smoking causes fire that hurts 13 in NYC

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New York City Fire Department vehicles sit on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower, in New York, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018. The department said a fire started around 7 a.m. Monday in the heating and air conditioning system of the building. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

3 injured in NY Trump Tower heating system fire

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New York City Fire Department vehicles sit on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower, in New York, Monday, Jan. 8, 2018. The department said a fire started around 7 a.m. Monday in the heating and air conditioning system of the building. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The Latest: 3 injured in Trump Tower heating system fire

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New York fire department faces another discrimination case

By DEEPTI HAJELA - Associated Press

Names of firefighters sickened after 9/11 placed on memorial

By CHRIS CAROLA - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by the New York City Fire Department firefighter William Tolley is shown. Tolley, 42, a 14-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department, died after falling from a roof while fighting a fire in the Queens borough of New York on Thursday, April 20, 2017. He leaves behind a wife and 8-year-old daughter. (New York City Fire Department via AP)

Fund launched for child of NYC firefighter killed in fall

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Raging blaze burns a dozen storefronts; 3 firefighters hurt

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In this Oct. 17, 1966 photo, Fire Department of New York firefighters stand at attention as the caskets of fallen firefighters are brought to a New York church for funeral services after a blaze that began on Oct. 17, 1966 in the basement of a business on Manhattan's East 23rd St. killed 12 firefighters. The blaze fifty years ago remained the deadliest day in FDNY's history, until the department lost 343 members on Sept. 11, 2001. (Fire Department of New York via AP)

FDNY pays tribute to 12 firefighters killed 50 years ago

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This undated family photo provided by the National Action Network, Saturday, July 19, 2014, shows Eric Garner. Garner was confronted by police trying to arrest him on suspicion of selling untaxed, loose cigarettes on a Staten Island sidewalk, authorities said. The 6-foot-3, 350-pound Garner became irate, denying the charges and refusing to be handcuffed before one of the officers placed him in what Police Commissioner William Bratton said appeared to be a chokehold, according to partial video of the encounter obtained by the New York Daily News. (AP Photo/Family photo via National Action Network)

‘Modified duty’ for medics after fatal NYC arrest

By Verena Dobnik - Associated Press

Cars from a Metro-North commuter train are scattered after the train derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx borough of New York on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Edwin Valero)

‘Multiple injuries’ in train derailment in New York City: fire department

By Deepti Hajela - Associated Press

A fireman, holding the photo of 9/11 victim Lt. John P. Napolitano, FDNY, salutes near Ground Zero during the ceremony marking the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2008. (UPI Photo/James Estrin/POOL)

EDITORIAL: Fire hires mired

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

A fireman, holding the photo of 9/11 victim Lt. John P. Napolitano, FDNY, salutes near Ground Zero during the ceremony marking the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2008. (UPI Photo/James Estrin/POOL)

EDITORIAL: Firehouse flunkies

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times