After six months, FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh has not acted on requests from 10 chiefs who sought demotions in protest of her department shake-up.
who asked to be demoted in protest of her controversial department shake-up, The Post has learned.
FDNY Chief of Department John Hodgens requested a demotion in February along with 9 other top agency chiefs after FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh demoted three other staff chiefs without consulting him or Chief of Operations John Esposito.Kavanagh’s first deputy, Joseph Pfeifer, raised the fire officers’ ire after telling New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd he didn’t see how any of the mutineers could be part of the team going forward.
“No one has replaced the chiefs because no one else has the necessary incident-command experience,” said Jim Walden, a lawyer for the three demoted chiefs and other FDNY staffers who have joined anMore than two months ago, Hodgens and Esposito asked Kavanagh to replace those she had demoted, those on medical leave and others who requested demotion “because chiefs are filling double and triple Incident command responsibilities and are exhausted,” according to a knowledgeable source.
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