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Joseph W. Pfeifer (born 1956) [1] is a retired American firefighter who served with the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). Pfeifer served as First Deputy Commissioner of the FDNY from February 2023 until September 2024, and as Acting Fire Commissioner of the FDNY in August 2024. Prior to his civilian work in the FDNY, Pfeifer was an ...
Joseph Pfeifer recalls his experience as the first chief on scene at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, in a memoir, "Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11."
The firefighters under the direction of Chief Pfeifer were the first responders on the scene. Naudet was allowed to follow the chief during the attempted rescue operation. Naudet, Chief Pfeifer and several other FDNY chiefs were inside the lobby of Tower 1 when Tower 2 was hit by United Airlines Flight 175 and when Tower 2 eventually collapsed ...
During the remainder of the 19th century, the number of commissioners was periodically changed by the New York State legislature, until a single commissioner was put in charge of the FDNY when Manhattan and the Bronx consolidated with Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island to form The City of New York on January 1, 1898. Since then, there have ...
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Two former New York City Fire Department chiefs became the latest high-ranking city officials to be named in a series of federal investigations plaguing Mayor Eric Adams' administration.
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A crane collapse in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning left 11 people injured, including two firefighters, according to the FDNY.