{"id":21446,"date":"2025-10-29T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21446\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:31:15","slug":"fdny-promotes-fire-operations-members-chief-chaplain-at-ceremony-on-staten-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/21446\/","title":{"rendered":"FDNY promotes fire operations members, Chief Chaplain at ceremony on Staten Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-28-062153-e1761657852935-300x169.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-419188\" alt=\"\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VIDEO: The FDNY held a promotion ceremony on Monday, October 27, 2025, at the Ocean Breeze Track and Field Facility on Staten Island.<\/p>\n<p>At the ceremony, members of fire operations were promoted to the following ranks: Assistant Chief, Deputy Chief, Battalion Chief, Captain, Lieutenant, Supervising Fire Marshal and Fire Marshal.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, who has been an FDNY chaplain for more than 25 years, was named the Department\u2019s Chief Chaplain. Rabbi Potasnik becomes the first Chief FDNY Chaplain in the agency\u2019s 160-year history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy now, I have done a bunch of these promotion ceremonies. Every time, I love this day even more,\u201d FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker said. \u201cThere is nothing more gratifying to me than to see you all succeed. I look out among the companies, the banners, the signs and the audience, and I know all of you feel the same pride that I do. Today is a great day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City of New York Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5e739def085893ff58cadddd2da48072.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" alt=\"FDNY Promotion Ceremony\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIDEO: The FDNY held a promotion ceremony on Monday, October 27, 2025, at the Ocean Breeze Track and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5855,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-21446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-mid-atlantic-region","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}