City lawmakers called on the mayor and FDNY officials to help the family of an ex-firefighter who died after he was fired to cover costs for the migrant crisis.
Derek Floyd died of a heart attack earlier this month and his family was left with next to nothing after the 36-year-old was canned late last year as part of the administration’s cost-cutting measure to pay for the nearly $10 billion use to house and feed the tens of thousands of asylum seekers in NYC, The Post revealed.
Politicians on both sides of the aisle were outraged Monday when they learned of the news — slamming City Hall for pushing Floyd out of the department just months before he would have been vested with five years on the job.
“What a heartbreaking story,” said Bob Holden (D-Queens) on social media, sharing The Post’s story. “Why was a man who served our country and our city treated so poorly? This is unacceptable. His family deserves so much better. The FDNY needed to do more to find a position that could accommodate him medically.