{"id":251370,"date":"2026-06-01T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251370\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T21:12:07","slug":"city-council-makes-unified-push-for-increased-fdny-staffing-following-several-deadly-bronx-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/251370\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council makes unified push for increased FDNY staffing following several deadly Bronx fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bronx City Council delegation and Twin Parks fire survivors are backing Speaker Julie Menin\u2019s push for FDNY funding to add one more firefighter per engine company.<\/p>\n<p>A bipartisan coalition has formed in support of a $91.7-million city investment to increase FDNY staffing. At a June 1 press conference outside FDNY Engine Company 7\/Ladder Company 1\/Battalion 1 in lower Manhattan, Menin called for Mayor Mamdani to approve funding that would allow a fifth firefighter in the 86 busiest and deadliest fire-prone areas.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/city-council-makes-push-for-increased-fdny-staffing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tCity Council makes unified push for increased FDNY staffing following several deadly Bronx fires &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bronx City Council delegation and Twin Parks fire survivors are backing Speaker Julie Menin\u2019s push for FDNY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,56079,57151,48486,27094,45296,194,98047,98048,96047,44573,22925,9,24,63,129,131,130,45151],"class_list":["post-251370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-fires","tag-bronx-first","tag-council-member-justin-sanchez","tag-council-member-kevin-riley","tag-council-speaker-julie-menin","tag-fdny","tag-fdny-staffing","tag-fdny-uniformed-firefighters-association","tag-fifth-firefighter","tag-haji-dukuray","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-twin-parks-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251370","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=251370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}