Speaking publicly for the first time since filing an age discrimination lawsuit against Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, 3 demoted FDNY chiefs call on Mayor Adams to intervene in a rift between some of the department’s highest-ranking leaders and their boss
But Adams doesn’t appear to believe the FDNY needs fixing. In a statement this week to the I-Team, he doubled down on his support for Kavanagh, the first female commissioner in the department’s history.
In a recent New York Times Op-Ed, supporters of Kavanagh suggested the rebellion among so many male fire chiefs against a female boss, is evidence of entrenched misogyny. But the demoted chiefs bristled at that notion, pointing out that their labor union, the Uniformed Fire Officers Association backed an African American woman, Terryl Brown, to become the fire commissioner. Brown was the FDNY’s former Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs.
“This has absolutely nothing to do with the fire commissioner being female,” said Massucci. “This has to do with the fire commissioner’s treatment of her executive staff.” After Kavanagh became commissioner, she ousted Brown for reasons that have not been made clear. Brown did not immediately respond to the I-Team’s request for comment., accusing her of systematically firing or demoting senior employees, including Brown, in an effort to fill her inner circle with younger, less experienced people.
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