Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that he will appoint former EMS Chief Lillian Bonsignore as commissioner of the FDNY. The 31-year FDNY veteran will become the second woman, first openly gay person and first member from the FDNY’s EMS ranks to be appointed to the department's top job.
Bonsignore worked as an FDNY EMT starting in 1991, was promoted to a lieutenant in 2002, captain in 2005, deputy chief in 2009 and became chief of the EMS training academy in Fort Totten Queens in 2016. In 2019, Bonsignore was named chief of EMS and led the department’s EMS workers and officers through the difficult Covid-19 pandemic.
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