FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker delivers 2025 State of the FDNY: 'Stronger, better trained and more ready than ever'

February 6, 2025

FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker addressed the FDNY Foundation on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, providing a comprehensive overview of the state of the FDNY and the Department's vision for the future.

Speaking to Foundation members and public safety leaders, Commissioner Tucker highlighted the Department's achievements, challenges, and priorities.

"As an agency, the FDNY is strong, but the FDNY of today is not the FDNY of yesteryear," Fire Commissioner Tucker said. "We are stronger, better trained, and more ready than ever to handle whatever comes our way. We also need help."

In 2024, the FDNY responded to 1.6 million medical calls. About 50% of calls firefighters are dispatched to are medical calls. The future of the FDNY is in emergency medical services, Commissioner Tucker said.

"We are now asking tough questions of ourselves," Commissioner Tucker said. "What resources do we need that we don’t have? What strategies do we need to have ready to deploy? Most importantly, what training and equipment do our firefighters require that they're not currently getting? These questions keep me up at night, and they are central to any public safety policy we create going forward."

For more information and to support the FDNY Foundation, the official nonprofit organization of the Department, visit FDNYFoundation.org.