Meet FDNY's new commissioner Lillian Bonsignore

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been in office for three months now, and we’ve been checking in with the new leaders on his team, to learn more about the administration’s priorities.

Lillion Bonsignore is the new commissioner of the FDNY. Her rise to the top of the department is somewhat historic. She joined the department in 1991 as an EMT and served as the Chief of EMS during the COVID-19 pandemic. She’s the second woman to be named commissioner, and the first EMT and the first openly Queer woman to run the nation’s largest fire department. 

She talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson more about how it's going so far.