FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, second left, is shown in this March 2023 file photo outside Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)Staff-Shot
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Commissioner Laura Kavanagh announced that she will be resigning from the FDNY in August after about two years heading the department.
The first woman to lead the FDNY will serve her last day as commissioner on Aug. 7, “almost one month after she announced her scheduled departure and months after she initiated these conversations with administration leadership,” according to a statement released by the FDNY.
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