New York City Fire Department
 
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| "New York's Bravest" EMS Motto: "New York's Best" |
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| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 New York
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| City |
 New York City
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| Agency overview | |
| Established | July 31, 1865 (origins go back to 1648) |
| Annual calls |
For 2013:
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| Employees |
15,629 (2013)
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| Staffing | Career |
| Commissioner | Daniel A. Nigro |
| EMS level | CFR-D, BLS & ALS |
| IAFF | 94 & 854 |
| Facilities and equipment | |
| Divisions | 10 |
| Battalions | 53 |
| Stations | 255 (Including 34 EMS Stations and 3 Fireboat Stations) |
| Engines | 198 |
| Trucks | 143 |
| Squads | 7 |
| Rescues | 5 |
| Ambulances | 234 (Morning and Evening) 146 (Overnight) |
| HAZMAT | 1 |
| USAR | 1 |
| Wildland | 10 |
| Fireboats | 3 Year round, 6 seasonal |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
For 2013:
15,629 (2013)
The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), is a department of the government of New York City that provides fire protection, technical rescue, primary response to biological, chemical, and radioactive hazards, and emergency medical services to the five boroughs of New York City.
The New York City Fire Department is the largest municipal fire department in the United States and the second largest in the world after the Tokyo Fire Department. The FDNY employs approximately 10,200 uniformed firefighters and over 3,940 uniformed EMTs, paramedics, and Fire Inspectors. Its regulations are compiled in title 3 of the New York City Rules. The FDNY's motto is New York's Bravest. The FDNY serves more than 8 million residents within a 320 square mile area.
The FDNY headquarters is located at 9 MetroTech Center in Downtown Brooklyn, and the FDNY Fire Academy is located on Randalls Island. There are Three Bureau of Fire Communications alarm offices which receive and dispatch alarms to appropriate units. One office, at 11 Metrotech Center in Brooklyn, houses Citywide, Brooklyn, and Staten Island Fire Communications. The Bronx houses Manhattan and the Bronx, and Queens houses Queens. The Bronx and Queens offices are in separate buildings, and plans are in the works to consolidate them into a single building to be constructed in the future.
Like most fire departments of major cities in the United States, the New York City Fire Department is organized in a paramilitary fashion, and in many cases echos the structure of the police department. The department's executive staff is divided into two areas that include a civilian Fire Commissioner who serves as the head of the department and a Chief of Department who serves as the operational leader. The current Fire Commissioner is Daniel A. Nigro, who recently took over the position from Salvatore J. Cassano in June 2014. The executive staff includes several civilian fire commissioners who are responsible for the many different bureaus within the department, along with the Chief of Department, the Chief of Fire Operations, the Chief of EMS, the Chief Fire Marshal, and other staff chiefs. Staff chiefs include the seven citywide tour commanders, the Chief of Safety, the Chief of Fire Prevention, and the Chief of Training.
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