New Leadership at FDNY

The Brian Lehrer Show

Robert Tucker, commissioner of the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY), talks about his new role and the challenges facing the department, and Daniel Flynn, chief fire marshal of the FDNY Bureau of Fire Investigation (BFI), discusses the department's efforts to prevent lithium-ion battery fires.

correction: There have been 31 deaths from lithium-ion battery fires since 2021, not since last year.