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Embattled FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh plans to resign, The Post has learned.Kavanagh has been clinging to her post as some members of Mayor Adams’ administration feel she’s done a poor job extinguishing smoldering discontent about her leadership, sources told The Post.
While Mayor Adams is still “very supportive” of Kavanagh, she’s feeling plenty of heat within the administration over a slew of firestorms under watch. They include rising FDNY emergency response times, surges in lithium-ion battery fires citywide, repeated criticism from rank-and-file firefighters and an age-discrimination lawsuit filed by “angry, old, white male” department honchos who were demoted, a City Hall insider said.
“My dedication to the FDNY has never and will never waver. It has been the honor of a lifetime to devote the last 10 years — five as first deputy commissioner and more than two as commissioner — to advocating for the men and women of the FDNY,” Kavanagh wrote in her message. “While the decision I have made over the last month has been a hard one, I’m confident that it is time for me to pass the torch to the next leader of the finest Fire Department in the world.
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