With the Fire Department absentee rate still above 7.5 percent, Commissioner Daniel Nigro, for the second time in less than four months, exercised his prerogative to reduce the 10 engine companies with five Firefighters, back down to four per engine, according to a statement released by the Uniformed Firefighters Association.
Last December, that threshold was triggered and the fifth Firefighter was taken off, until the day after Christmas when the five-Firefighter crews were restored. At the time, the FDNY cited operational concerns related to the extreme cold weather. For one day, when conditions got really bad the five-Firefighter crews were extended citywide for a day.
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