Mayor: Fire Crew's Intimidation Tactics Warrant More Than the 4-Week Bans

Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said Nov. 1 that the Oct. 29 incident in which five Firefighters and a Lieutenant from Ladder Co. 113 drove their truck to the district office of a black State Senator, then four of them berated his staff about the vaccine mandate while demanding his home address will be "thoroughly investigated," with the possibility of more-severe penalties than the four-week unpaid suspensions the crew was initially given for its threatening behavior.

According to staff members in Sen. Zellnor Myrie's office, the six on-duty firefighters pulled up in their company's firetruck and demanded that they disclose where he lived while warning them that there would be "blood on his" hands" if people died because of a reduction in fire-company staffing due to the mandate, which required that any city employees who hadn't gotten their initial shots by 5 p.m. that afternoon be suspended without pay the following Monday.