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Re: NYT: Subway Chief May Quit Over Tensions With Cuomo, Colleagues Fear |
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Posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Apr 19 14:44:49 2019, in response to Re: NYT: Subway Chief May Quit Over Tensions With Cuomo, Colleagues Fear, posted by Allan on Fri Apr 19 09:30:39 2019. Not too long after 9/11, FDNY started promoting hundreds of people from the eligible list early, on both sides of the department, to make good severe personnel shortages, especially at the executive level. One of the things that happened concurrently with this, was that FDNY went through a forced modernization cycle, because so much equipment needed to be replaced immediately.The (newly promoted) Chief who was put in charge of making that happen, hit the ground running, and by the summer of 2002, most of the destroyed apparatus had been replaced. He handled a very difficult job extraordinarily well, and when asked about it, he credited the Commissioner, Thomas Von Essen, for letting him get the job done. Von Essen had absolutely zero fire management experience before being named Commissioner by Mayor Giuliani, in fact, he was the president of the Uniformed Firefighters' Association, and never rose above the rank of firefighter. The trick for Byford is to get the job done while making the political guy above him look good anyway. Cuomo doesn't know the work, Byford does, and everyone in the know, is aware of that. |
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