Department releases FDNY Pro Podcast for January 2025 featuring Fire Commissioner Robert S. Tucker

January 29, 2025

On Jan. 29, 2025, the FDNY and the FDNY Foundation released the latest FDNY Pro Podcast, Episode 110. In it, Fire Commissioner Robert S. Tucker discusses issues facing the Department, including a new push for federal legislation to regulate lithium-ion batteries and utilizing artificial intelligence to improve public safety.

"It's 2025, and we have to rethink and continue to innovate and learn about how to be the best fire department in the world," Fire Commissioner Tucker said, specifically mentioning how artificial intelligence and analytics can play a role in the FDNY becoming more efficient in the future. "We are the greatest fire department in the world, but in order to keep our first-place designation, we have to keep moving forward."

The FDNY Pro Podcast brings together professionals and subject matter experts in the fields of fire suppression, rescue, emergency medicine, and training, offering firsthand knowledge and experience to listeners, particularly with a focus on those in the first responder community. With support from the FDNY Foundation, the official nonprofit organization of the New York City Fire Department, the FDNY Pro Podcast was established in 2016.

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