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Aug 12, 2024 · And with her agreement that he was the person to take this department to the next level, we're proud to be here today and announce Robert Tucker as the next fire commissioner of the City of New York, the FDNY, to lead the bravest, to lead them into a brave future.
Sep 27, 2024 · The New York Mayor is accused of taking bribes while forcing the fire department to certify the Turkish consulate as safe when it had 60 defects.
Aug 12, 2024 · NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Monday appointed Robert S. Tucker, the head of a private security firm, to head the city's fire department. Tucker, 54, takes over from...
Aug 12, 2024 · Tucker joins a department that has long struggled with complaints about sexism and racism. Firefighting remains a male-dominated field in New York City with just over 1% of the FDNY’s 11,000 firefighters being women as of 2020, according to City Council data. Racial disparities also persist.
- The First Firefighters Were Dutch
- The City of New York
- Engine Company Number 1
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- 20Th-Century Firefighting
- Financial Crisis and Social Unrest
- The 9/11 Attacks
The origins of the FDNY date back to 1648, when New York was a Dutch settlement known as New Amsterdam. A recently arrived immigrant called Peter Stuyvesant formed a group of local volunteer fire wardens who became known as ‘the bucket brigades’. This was due to their equipment being little more than a large number of buckets and ladders that the g...
In 1663 the British took over the New Amsterdam settlement and renamed it New York. As the city’s population expanded, a more efficient means of fighting fires was needed. A system of hoses was introduced alongside more elaborate fire fighting apparatus such as hand pumpers, hook and ladder trucks, and hose reels, all of which had to be hand-drawn.
In 1865 the first professional unit, Engine Company Number 1, went into service in Manhattan. This was the year that New York firefighters became full-time public employees. The first ladder trucks were pulled by two horses and carried wooden ladders. Around the same time, the city’s first Emergency Medical Service appeared, with horse-drawn ambula...
On 25 March 1911, a large fire in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory killed 146 people, many of them workers who had become trapped inside the building. It triggered a wave of reform to New York State Labor Law, which rolled out the first laws in regards to mandatory fire escapes and fire drills at work. In 1912 the Bureau of Fire Prevention w...
The department rapidly expanded over the next 100 years to prepare for the possibility of attack during multiple foreign wars, whilst dealing with the complexity of protecting the city’s fast-growing population. The FDNY developed equipment and strategies to fight fires along the vast waterfront area of the city with a squad of fire-fighting boats....
As New York’s prosperity dwindled in the 1960s and 1970s, poverty and civil unrest grew, leading to what became known as the city’s ‘war years’. Property values slumped, so landlords took to burning down their assets for insurance payouts. Arson rates rose, and firefighters were increasingly attacked while riding on the outside of their vehicles. I...
The September 11 terror attacks took the lives of some 3,000 people, including 343 New York City firefighters. Search and rescue efforts at Ground Zero, as well as the clearance of the site, lasted for 9 months. The flames at Ground Zero were only fully extinguished on 19 December 2001, 99 days after the attack. The FDNY received roughly 2 million ...
- Celeste Neill
The Fire Department of the City of New York has a long history of firefighting, extending back to the days of Dutch colonization. The Museum tells this story through our vast collection of objects, memorabilia, and photographs.
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Aug 12, 2024 · NEW YORK (WABC) -- Mayor Eric Adams appointed Robert Tucker as New York City's new fire commissioner. Adams announced Tucker as the FDNY commissioner during a special ceremony held...
