The FDNY is preparing to shutter as many as 20 percent of all Big Apple fire companies — and take an equal portion of its ambulances off the streets — ahead of the impending deadline for all city workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

On Wednesday, the FDNY said just 65 percent of its firefighters, fire officers and EMS workers had been vaccinated despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s order that all city workers receive at least one dose or face suspension without pay on Monday.

“The Department must manage the unfortunate fact that a portion of our workforce has refused to comply with a vaccine mandate for all city employees,” Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro said in a statement later Wednesday.
“People will die in this city.”


One Manhattan cop said the expected results of benching patrol officers for ignoring the vaccine mandate were predictable.

“It’s an easy formula: Less cops equal more crime,” the source said.

With a heart attack, seven or eight minutes makes a big difference.” the source said. “And fires, an eight-minute difference is one bedroom or the whole house. Or in row houses, an eight-minute difference is one house or the whole block!”

“This is no joke,” the source said.

On Wednesday, Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Lizette Colon turned down a request by the Police Benevolent Association, the NYPD’s largest union, to issue a temporary restraining order against the vaccine mandate, which was first reported by The Post.


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