I had to use a fire extinguisher on my stove. I tried to move the sauce pan away on the other side of the stove before I quickly grabbed the extinguisher and sprayed a small burst at the flame. The sauce pan was covered with a cheesecloth because I was steaming something. My question is, I noticed the powder spread and reached near the sauce pan but since the food was covered in the cheese cloth, was it contaminated? Could I still eat it? Or has some particles reached through the cloth?

After a DCAS FOIL request I learned that there are 30,461 applicants for 4044. I know that it is extremely early and hard to project, but how will this effect what score will be needed to get into the academy? I have no residency or veteran points so shooting for a 99 or 100.

As i watch compilations of FDNY responding, I see that a lot of the trucks used to have red wheels and that was older videos. When I watch recent compilations I see a lot of trucks have chrome wheels. I also noticed that the lights on the back of the truck had red and yellow, now they are red yellow and blue. If anyone can answer these questions It would be highly appreciated.

Taking my medical this week. Is the stair master por

Just wondering I’m seeing different answers. For the fdny academy do you commute every day or have to live there boot camp style? Appreciate you all

Will there be a new contract coming up soon with a higher base salary?

What would have a rookie firefighter have made when they got on the job in the early to mid eighties compared to what the starting salary is now?

Researching aa587, what is the closest soc company to the rockaway peninsula seems like a haul for r2 and r4 is their a squad closer?

The notice for Exam 4044 now states the filing period Starts September 16th of 2024

The End date of the filing period now reflects September 30th of 2024

You Must be at least 17 years old in order to file for the exam

You Must Not have reached your 29th birthday before the beginning of the filing period

The beginning of the filing period on this notice states September 16th 2024

Anyone that didn't file on the previous notice you now have a second chance to file.

FDNY Exam 4044 Notice

Apply below

https://a856-exams.nyc.gov/OASysWeb/exams

What's the scoop with the fire marshal promotions? Anybody know how far down the list they had to go for today's promotions?

Do guys want the job?

Any other water cooler talk anyone care to share?

What is FST in the fire academy? Overhead two probies mention how tuff it was but didn’t get the chance to ask them about it.

Can anyone provide any info on when the FDNY lost the job description out of their contract and what the negative impact to the job was with it? I seem to remember reading it but cannot remember the specifics. Thanks in advance.

Just FOIAed the information from DCAS, if you were curious.

Can anyone tell me if I will be eligible for the Legacy credit from my father's experience volunteering at Ground Zero?

My father was a Nassau County Police Officer who volunteered at Ground Zero in the days after 9/11. In 2009 he passed away from a cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma, a recognized 9/11 related illness. He is listed as a non-nypd hero who lost their life from a 9/11 related illness. I also received compensation from the 9/11 victim's compensation fund. I have photos of him at ground zero with his badge around his neck.

Does this experience give me eligibility for the Legacy credit? I really want to score over 100 on this test. Today is 15 years since he passed away. Awfully ironically, he was laid to rest on September 11th 2009 too. Thank you guys.

Been a while. Many DM's lots to respond to if I haven't responded I will

Figured I'd let out a quick rant before addressing all the other concerns in future post.

Alot has changed recently.

The truth is the world has changed in these last 2 years. NYC has turned into a 3rd world country with 3rd world crimes and other crimes all at all time highs. While certain crimes not being recorded in order to Skew the numbers to uphold Hizoners reputation and make it appear as if the city is at its safest.

Which it is not.

This isn't news if you work for the city you know what's going on. I don't think we need to elaborate any further on that.

Everything that we've seen recently is what happens when a city places D.E.I. over Merits, Integrity & Capability.

D.E.I over safety and integrity was placed at the forefront of every one of the city's decisions recently.

Diversity can happen without being forced and without being the primary decision in someone getting a position in the city's cabinet or civil service positions.

Inclusion should just be fluid.

Everyone should be encouraged and should apply. However they should be hired based on their ability to legitimately do their jobs and to effectively do the task they are being hired to do. Race, Gender, Pronouns etc. None of that has anything to do with running or protecting & responding to an entire city.

We need the right people in place every step of the way. Starting at the top and all the way down. That is not limited to 1 race 1 gender or 1 color, we just need the right people period

We can hire a dam Xenomorph if they are the most qualified beings to do the job.

If a Xenomorph could run a mile and a half in 11-12 minutes show up passing their baseline assessments and also passing FST with flying colors then that's who we need to hire. And if it Can't they deserve to just be fired.

No job offer period. Doesn't matter what boxes they checked, they're not qualified.

This is real life your told your going into an academy, you have over a year to prepare. Most of you reading this would never have had a chance if Covid didn't force the list to be extended. Literally the stars aligned for this once in a lifetime opportunity.

So why do we still have so many under qualified Probies still showing up at probies school.

This isn't all. I'm not knocking the majority of each of the recent academy graduates. Most are decently to very well prepared and theirs always the few All-stars.

However over the years as this list has gone further and further through list numbers there are more and more people showing up under prepared thinking this is a hand out.

Failing the run. Can't do the baseline assessments. Out of shape barely making it into the academy Getting injured their first week because they failed to prepare.

If your getting a shot to go into the academy and You failed to fully prepare. Do everyone a favor. Don't start. Don't waste the job offer.

Key words Fully prepared. Meaning you have put in the work on your own time. Your passing the run. Exceeding your baselines by at least 1. Zero excuses.

If you can't do that. You don't want it. You never did.

Time was on your side. You blew it.

If you did want it you would have trained and been the person the city needs. Not the person on light duty 2 weeks into an academy. Don't make excuses.

The academy has been watered down yearly these past few years if your failing it's your own fault.

With dropping the standards they need to drop the redo rate. If they're gonna make it an easier academy make the standards a pass / fail on their first try.

Why do we have tons of probies on light duty hiding at HQ?

Next time your at HQ take a look at how many people don't have a company collar brass. Those double Maltese crosses on their collars or no collar brasses at all on their collars mean they didn't graduate.

Those same people show up to work at HQ with Zero respect for the uniform. Imagine that, your "Dream Job" what everyone says and here are these people from all walks in the uniform you'd do anything to earn and be proud to wear yet here they are looking like they just dug the uniform out of their trunk that morning. Dirty, wrinkled, sloppy, no belt, shoes scuffed looking like you use them as a door chock at home.

The city gave you that uniform, if you haven't graduated you haven't earned it.

The least you can do is respect it.

Respect the uniform and the fact that your able to have a second chance at the academy.

A belt is Free as part of your uniform.

How are you allowed in headquarters without it on? How is that uniform not spotless and pressed daily? How do you look working in HQ with the free shoes we provided you broken looking like you just got out of a shelter. The least you can do is take care of the uniform and try to look the part.

How are you pretending to represent the department to the future generations that pass through HQ, While being unshaven looking like your just getting over a hang over or out of a homeless shelter.

Before anyone jumps to assumptions here. This is not limited to one race or gender looking like crap while representing the department and working at HQ. Black, White, Latino, Asian etc Male, Female, Other etc. Are all failing Probie School then hiding at HQ on "Light Duty" until the next academy.

So why is the city wasting money paying people who didn't graduate? Giving them a Second, Third and even a fourth shot to pass the academy...

"Equity"

Equity means forcing someone into something they didn't earn and in some cases they didn't even want it based on the boxes they can check.

The truth is "Equity" does not exist

It's made a up term to make people accept reverse racism. Racism is Racism and it's wrong in any direction regardless of who it benefits.

Is their "Equity" in being a Lifeguard at a beach?

No you hire someone based on their capabilities to do the assignment at hand a.k.a their expected roles.

Do you want the 300lb Lifeguard that's obese and out of shape, barely can climb down or up a ladder, can't run and can't swim. Do you want them sitting on that Lifeguard tower while your family plays by the water?

But lifeguards need more D.E.I. ... So should we forcefully hire people that are out of shape & can't swim because they didn't have the experiences in life to learn how to swim just to check a box?

How about:

An EMT or Firefighter showing up to your home in a wheelchair?

A bus driver with a prosthetic eye?

A Police Officer with a prosthetic arm?

No of course you don't want that. You have common sense.

Certain jobs have something called basic job standards.

Can anyone work to achieve those standards? Absolutely!

But the standards need to be met and everyone should be expected to do their part to meet the standards.

Life doesn't give you a fair shot based on "Equity"

Babies aren't born into certain families based on "Equity"

We don't get diseases because of "Equity"

Same way we can't beat a critical illness based on "Equity"

So back to HQ and those who are currently hiding there...

Some people checked the right boxes and the job wants more boxes checked. So they lowered the standards because some people did not meet the former standards.

So instead of making the best people from all walks rise up we lowered the bar so those that can't run can just walk over the bar

Of course that benefits everyone failing besides just the ones the job is working so hard to retain. Rightfully so you'll never hear anyone failing complain about lowering standards or being given a second or third shot.

But that's still wasn't enough. So the Job is now giving out an additional 10 points to all city residents.

After some recent events (a whole different discussion) I'm actually not fully against the 10 points if the standards were reverted to their previous levels and the academy were a 1 time pass / fail.

No do overs. This is real life. Prepare and be the one we need or get out the way and let someone who is ready step up. If there is a second shot for some unknown extreme circumstance like a death in the family then of course they should work with you. But a second shot because you failed to prepare? Nope.

We had a great strong intelligent Black Female commissioner in PD briefly who was admired by most and Hizoner managed to screw that up and eventually pushed her out because she was actually about doing her job

Those people who are about doing their jobs

Those who have integrity

Those who are capable of doing their jobs like her

Those are the people the city needs.

Hopefully things get fixed up, and the city gets the turn around we need quick.

We need standards in our city & That starts at the top.

We need standards in our job. That's what made it "The greatest job in the world".

Basic Standards.

Here's to 2024 & The End of an Error

-RR

I’m currently registered for the upcoming FDNY exam in January. I also heard there is a NYPD academy coming in January. Would it be worthwhile starting out in NYPD to be established in the pension system and wait for a call for FDNY firefighters or emt? I’m 22 but would like to be established sooner rather than later and I know if I don’t score a 100 on the FD exam the chances of getting called seem kind of slim. (I know the emt route is probably my best bet atp) I’m also waiting on Nassau and Suffolk PD where I had scored a 98 and 90 respectively. I know people say the job is kinda shit and I know coming to ask on a FD subreddit is counterintuitive but I know a lot of people have transferred over. All things considered I know I would like to end up in FDNY by the decades end so I figure starting out in PD for a small duration of this decade would be worthwhile to obtain my goal while being established at 22 compared to maybe getting the call at 26/27

Good morning guys, I recently took the fire inspector exam and they said that we were allowed to bring calculators to the exam, will this be the same case for the firefighters exam?

So I’m going to be a 4th year apprentice next month in local 3 but the FF exam just closed (#4044) and I applied to it now I just have questions regarding how’s the whole process because I have heard that it can take up to a year to get a call back, what’s the longest someone has waited for a call back? And if anyone can just give me a personal opinion if you had the option of choosing local 3 or fdny, only reason I’m unsure what path to take is because local 3 is shit at the moment (too many waiting on the bench to work) thank you !

Update : thank you guys all for feedback we shall see what other info from fellow homies say about my questions and maybe you guys personal opinions btw I’m just 21 so any feedback / suggestions would actually mean a lot. Stay safe 🙏🏼

good day, anybody knows the type of questions that are on the fire protection inspector exam?

Does anyone know how city time works? For example going from NYPD to FDNY. Does time and pay carry over ?

I'm thinking about joining the FDNY because I really want to help people. I'm currently studying computer science and I'm a bit worried that if my current career path doesn’t work out. I still want to be able to help others no matter what and being a Firefighter has been a second option for a long time. I’m starting college in a week, and I don't know how to swim or drive yet. I think I think I’ll be able to pass the physical exam because I’m decently strong. I’m just nervous for what comes after.

Do you think I can get ready for the academy in time if I start working on these skills now? Any advice would be great! Thanks!

I’m not currently in FDNY yet but I anticipate joining from this upcoming Firefighter exam in the next few years or hopefully join sooner through the EMT route. But I am aware of some people having side Jobs while in this profession.

What do some of you guys do for side jobs alongside firefighting?

It’s becoming increasingly expensive to live in NYC or on Long Island so I’m thinking of an outlook to balance another job alongside this one.

I’ve heard some typically do trade work, or be an EMT/ paramedic elsewhere

I’ve had interest in becoming a nurse and was considering going back to school for this degree since I wouldn’t need much more credits for it. I found another thread about this specifically and have seen a decent handle of people do this. And if you do, can you share any insight? This is my most desired path so I’d like to hear any thoughts whatsoever.

Any advice is appreciated, thank you!

Has anyone ever tried to go through the process online? Because I’m doing it online and I just payed and it tells me to wait 15 mins so the exam can show up on my dashboard but nothing has happened and I keep checking my gmail. Any reason why? Or I’m I missing something important? Please lmk and thank you for the help.

Hey yall, I'm 23Y/O and I got a 4 year degree in Computer Science with a tech job that pays well, an apartment with good and comfortable rent price with all utilities included in Queens Ny, and a new car. Financially I'm doing good but I'm already getting bored and tired of my corporate job and want to do something more exciting with more spirit and love. I've always wanted to be a Firefighter in my life and have paid for the exam and should be taking it January 2025.

I wanted to ask the good folk of Reddit whether or not if there is another way that I can sign up to be a Firefighter, the only way I know of is through the exam but I also heard there might be other ways to sign up and get selected to be one.

Also for those who are also transitioning/transitioned from corporate jobs to Firefighting, how is it? Do you regret it? Are you in love with the job and will never go back to doing anything else?

Does FDNY participate in any 9/11 events ?