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Pulled From Firehouse, Kept Putting Out Blazes

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 10/18/19

When Frank Gribbon was asked in the summer of 2000 whether he’d be interested in becoming the chief spokesman for the Fire Department, a move that would raise his salary about $30,000 and move him out of harm’s way from fighting fires in Harlem and the South Bronx, he was decidedly ambivalent.

“I kinda enjoyed what I was doing, being a covering Lieutenant in the 16th Battalion,” he explained Oct. 15, referring to the role of filling in for absent Lieutenants at companies within the command.

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