New York Daily News
NEW YORK — Newly minted Fire Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore made a fiery pitch for EMS pay parity during a “State of the FDNY” breakfast, claiming it was time EMS is embraced “as an equal in the Fire Department and in the first responder community.”
“EMS is the lowest-paid first responders in the city, and that is unacceptable,” Bonsignore said at Thursday’s breakfast, which was sponsored by the FDNY Foundation. “The people staffing the ambulances deserve to be able save the lives that need them and still support their families in the city that they love.”…