{"id":136109,"date":"2025-08-11T04:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136109\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T04:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T04:57:18","slug":"fdny-commissioner-on-what-new-yorkers-must-have-to-keep-themselves-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/136109\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY commissioner on what New Yorkers must have to keep themselves safe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Help FDNY\u00a0keep us safe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert Tucker, FDNY commissioner, told me what should be in every home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, a working smoke alarm. Many have them but the battery\u2019s not operative. Crazy \u2014 because we give them out for free. We even come to your home and install them for free. Also, go to FDNYsmart.org. We give safety tips for free. A working smoke alarm might also have a CO2 detector. It\u2019s bare minimum at this point.<\/p>\n

\u201cCentral for the fire department for anywhere on the island of Manhattan is a place you\u2019ve passed 100 times without knowing what you\u2019ve passed. Everything goes right there. And everyone\u2019s passed it 100 times without knowing it. It\u2019s on the 79th Street transverse and nobody knows what they were passing.\u201d<\/p>\n

OK, so who are you? How did you get to be fire commissioner?<\/p>\n

\u201cLiving nearby and with my bike, I\u2019d hang around 85th between Lex and Third near the firehouse. Doors open. A fire buff, I became a summer intern in a small office helping to dispatch the engines. Born in New York City. Went to Fieldston. Had my law degree and knew I wanted to be a fireman. A police and fire buff, I\u2019d chase fire engines with a little scanner on my bike up and down Lexington and Park avenues.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did a project mapping Manhattan\u2019s multiple-alarm fires. Fifth alarm were pins with white heads, fourth \u2014 red heads, third \u2014 green heads.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet homeowners know, in a fireproof apartment building, unless otherwise instructed, shelter in place. Shut doors. If doors are shut, fire can be contained. We even handle outdoor fires, car fires. We are New York City\u2019s rescuers.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, I\u2019ve been scared. Like at 345 Park Ave<\/a>. So was the mayor and Commissioner\u00a0Tisch. We were outside, scared for our EMTs, paramedics, firefighters. A staff travels with me. A special cell, state-of-the-art, rings in a certain way if something happens. At one Saturday night dinner party it rang when a boat hit the Brooklyn Bridge<\/a> and people were in the water. Other guests said, \u2018What\u2019s a fire commissioner?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThey laughed thinking here\u2019s more food for them \u2014 and next it\u2019s the top story around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Say again what should all residents have?<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral working smoke detectors, CO2 detectors and fire extinguishers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drop the mike<\/strong><\/p>\n

Me, a question.<\/p>\n

Each politician\u2019s mouth is larger than any of their other parts. Stick love affairs. Shove romance. \u201cGetting it on\u201d is getting it onto a microphone. In office, out of office, scratching for office, none spied a mike they couldn\u2019t avoid.<\/p>\n

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Forget sex shops, shove cannabis stores. A working MICROPHONE is the only instrument pols want.<\/p>\n

They hold it, grab it, cuddle it, warm it, stroke it, lick it, kiss it.<\/p>\n

Rarely pro speakers, they don\u2019t know how to handle it. A notebook\u2019s in front. On their lectern. OPEN. To the page from which they\u2019re bleating. Eyes straight down after two sentences. Supposedly they\u2019re getting the juice. HOW? They don\u2019t even KNOW it.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re reading someone\u2019s pre-written information.<\/p>\n

FEELING unsure and seeing protests, marches, hatreds, my friends moving and prices rising, I had a big talk with my Wall Street broker yesterday. I now feel better about any future possibility of an unsafe market. We set up a calculated all-encompassing program designed to reach certain investment goals during the next five years. Like getting even.<\/p>\n

Oy, like Only in New York, kids, only in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Help FDNY\u00a0keep us safe Robert Tucker, FDNY commissioner, told me what should be in every home. \u201cFirst, a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,6525,4216,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-136109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fdny","10":"tag-fires","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-opinion","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115008362536080090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}