FDNY Commissioner Scoppetta To Step Down

2009_10_scoppetta.jpg Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta is stepping down at the end of the year. The AP reports, "Scoppetta took over just months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack that devastated the FDNY, killing 343. He said in a letter to staff Thursday that he took the post because he wanted to help the city recover from the tragedy. He said the biggest challenge of his job was to rebuild the ranks while preparing to respond to another attack."

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Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta can now spend his days asking forgiveness from the families who lost their firefighters in the Deutsche Bank fire.
Since he, nor Bloomberg, have an memory here's what happened: The head of NYFD let an 9/11 abandoned office building without water open for workers. Building catches fire, firefighters die, Scoppetta keeps his job.
Bloomberg management at it's purest.

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