Embattled FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh plans to resign, The Post has learned.
“New York City will always be the love of my life,” she told The Post in an email.
Kavanagh has been clinging to her post as some members of Mayor Adams’ administration feel she’s done a poor job extinguishing smoldering discontent about her leadership, sources told The Post.
While Mayor Adams is still “very supportive” of Kavanagh, she’s feeling plenty of heat within the administration over a slew of firestorms under watch. They include rising FDNY emergency response times, surges in lithium-ion battery fires citywide, repeated criticism from rank-and-file firefighters and an age-discrimination lawsuit filed by “angry, old, white male” department honchos who were demoted, a City Hall insider said.
“My dedication to the FDNY has never and will never waver. It has been the honor of a lifetime to devote the last 10 years — five as first deputy commissioner and more than two as commissioner — to advocating for the men and women of the FDNY,” Kavanagh wrote in her message.
“While the decision I have made over the last month has been a hard one, I’m confident that it is time for me to pass the torch to the next leader of the finest Fire Department in the world. I look forward to spending the next several months assisting the department’s transition in leadership, before embarking on my next professional challenge. Thank you Mayor Adams for the opportunity you gave me and for your continued support of me and the FDNY.”
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.