In response to hazing scandals resulting in lawsuits, FDNY Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro recently announced that he would meet in person with every fire officer on the New York City Fire Department, over 900 of them. Groups of officers would attend meetings at the Randall’s Island training facility.
According to a department source that spoke to the New York Daily News, Commissioner Nigro “decided it was important to make his position forcefully known to key supervisors and the entire FDNY leadership that hazing is unacceptable, it’s prohibited and it will not be tolerated.”