Posted on 12/26/2025 5:35:08 PM PST by Morgana
Zohran Mamdani's pick to lead the Fire Department of New York City (FDNY) has never been a firefighter. Lillian Bonsignore, who has previously served as the EMS chief for the FDNY, will also be the first person to lead the department who is also openly gay.
Bonsignore is a veteran EMS employee of the FDNY but has never served as a firefighter herself.
Bonsignore said that she "knows the job" and "knows what the firefighters need" despite being primarily in the EMS role. She retired in 2022 and will be the second woman to serve as the FDNY commissioner under Mamdani. She is set to assume the role when Mamdani stops into office in January.
"I know the job," she said. "I know the what the firefighters need, and I can translate that to this administration who's willing to listen. I know what EMS needs, I've been EMS for 30 plus years."
"I am honored, so honored, and humbled to stand before you as the new fire commissioner," Bonsignore told reporters on Tuesday. "This appointment represents a significant responsibility, one I accept with humility, dedication, and a deep sense of commitment to the city and its people."
Bonsignore is set to replace Mark Guerra, who was appointed by New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Guerra will succeed FDNY commissioner Robert Tucker, who resigned the day that Mamdani was elected. However, the time Guerra has had on the job will have been rather short.
“There are some young LGBTQ members that maybe don’t see this as a possibility for them and I want them to know that there’s nothing that can stop them from finding success," Bonsignore said of the appointment. Some have been critical of Bonsignore’s appointment as well as her comment, saying that she was hired only for DEI purposes.
She was hired for what she does with her genitals nothing else, just that.
DEI makes people DIE!!!
Hmmm...a lesbian fire chief. Work out so well for LA...
People in New York will die - but maybe that's what democrats want to have happen.
That is just stupid.
That must be humiliating to the firefighters.
I didn't know the Hot/Crazy Matrix went into the negative on the Hot axis, but I guess it does.
Shudder.
That’s what’s known as “failing up”. Flunking her out would’ve been more appropriate.
What could go wrong. Read Solzhenytzen.
It passes all the tests, lgbqt-lsmft, {Lucky Strike means fine tobacco, for the yutes reading this} and none of which qualifies anyone to lead the eleven thousand NY City Firemen.
If you are a NYC resident and didn't vote for any mayor, or voted for him, IT IS YOUR FAULT, YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU WILL GET.
But she did pee on a guy in a bathtub and put his cigarette out...
They do hire non Firefighters as Conmiissions.Why did they point out she was gay?
OF COURSE NOT!!!!!!!!!
NO EXPERIENCE IS THE MAIN PART OF MAMDANI
I WONDER HOW MANY WELL-QUALIFIED FIREMEN WILL MOVE OUT COMPLETELY???
SMALL TOWNS ARE GROWING -—THEN CAN INCREASE THEIR FIREMEN.
AND I DO MEAN MEN.....
Members of the politburo needn’t be bothered with a requirement for experience ... they just need a thirst for power and an unconditional fealty to the communist/jihadist leader.
She doesn’t look like a “man”. She looks like a mentally ill woman who doesn’t have a clue.
When I was in the Navy I had to work for a 5 foot tall, 180 pound female chief who had never done the job she was in charge of because it was hard and stressful (recruiting). She had every opportunity to be a recruiter but chose to work in support instead. Many better qualified males were passed over to promote this DEI know nothing. This was in the early/middle 90s. DEI has been going on for longer than people realize.
“Staten Island didn’t.”
True. Staten Island voted 82k for Cumo and 33k for Mamdami.
It will be the Pacific Palisades all over again. NY will burn to the ground with people like this in charge.
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