New York City Fire Department (FDNY)
!['It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of former FDNY Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Nicholas Scoppetta the 31st Commissioner of the Fire Department of New York in January 2002, a position which he held until January 1, 2010. Commissioner Scoppetta headed a 16,000 member department, encompassing fire services and Emergency Medical Services, with a budget in excess of a billion dollars. His leadership abilities played a vital role in strengthening and rebuilding the Department after September 11th.
Commissioner Scoppetta was a former Deputy Mayor and Commissioner of Investigation for the City of New York. He was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. When he was five years old he was placed in a children's shelter and lived in various foster care institutions until he turned 12. He attended public schools in Manhattan. Upon graduation from law school, he was appointed an Assistant District Attorney in New York County. He also served as Associate Counsel to the Knapp Commission and an Assistant US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and as the Deputy Independent Counsel in the investigation and prosecution of a former Special Assistant to the President of the United States.
“As Fire Commissioner, Nicholas Scoppetta was instrumental to rebuilding the FDNY during a time of unimaginable loss and devastation. The Department is stronger today thanks to his leadership in the years following September 11th. He was truly a public servant without peer, and we deeply mourn his loss.” - Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro
Upon Commissioner Scoppetta’s retirement from the FDNY, he wrote in a farewell letter to the Department, “After 47 years in government and public service, there has been no greater reward than to have helped rebuild the Fire Department in the aftermath of 9/11.”
See additional photos of former FDNY Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta by visiting http://ow.ly/ZTOlI [Flickr].'](https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-0/p110x80/1422387_10153969709225729_2319482163780038552_n.jpg?oh=c8cadea3309711ac17bf99b7960c6eca&oe=57859E51)
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It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of former FDNY Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Nicholas Scoppetta the 31st Commissioner of the Fire Department of New York in January 2002, a position which he held until January 1, 2010. Commissioner Scoppetta headed a 16,000 member department, encompassing fire services and Emergency Medical Services, with a budget in excess of a billion dollars. His leadership abilit...
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Today's FDNY Throwback Thursday photo is from this day in 1977 at a 3-alarm fire at Hinsdale Street near Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. See more photos at http://ow.ly/ZS5Ew [Flickr]
“This morning we’re gathered at the site where more than a century ago, one of the darkest days in our city’s history unfolded. For the FDNY, it was the single greatest loss of life we had ever responded to, before September 11th. 105 years later, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire remains an indelible moment in time that drives all of us in the Department still today,” – FDNY First Deputy Commissioner Robert Turner, who was joined by FDNY members today in commemorating the 105th Anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in Manhattan. See more photos from today’s commemoration at http://ow.ly/ZS8aH [Flickr]
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