FDNY smokeaters have a new reason to celebrate — June was the first month in the department’s 150-year history in which not a single person was killed in a fire in the five boroughs, the agency’s commissioner announced Thursday.
There had previously not been a month without a fire fatality since the department started keeping accurate records in 1916, said a spokesman for Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro.
The commissioner had more good news: In the past five years, between 2010 and 2014, there were fewer fire fatalities citywide than during any five-year period on record, he said.