'New York City is going to come to a crisis on Monday morning,' said Uniformed Firefighters Association president Andrew Ansboro.
New York City is gearing up for a possible crisis next week after more than 26,000 municipal workers missed Friday's mandated vaccine deadline and will be sent home without pay, threatening the service capacity of fire fighters, police and other first responders.
"We can't even keep fire houses open today. New York City is going to come to a crisis on Monday morning," Andrew Ansboro toldNew data released by the city found that while vaccination rates among the city's police officers, firefighters, garbage collectors and other municipal workers rose by at least 7 percent on Friday, only 83 percent of them were unvaccinated by 8 p.m. City workers had until 5 p.m.
Some neighborhoods across the city have already begun warning residents of possible delays to services. On Friday, Manhattan Community Board 12 sent out an email to residents warning of possible firehouse closures, according to WYNC/Gothamist.
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