Join us on our Youtube Channel with our special guest, Thomas Von Essen New York City's 30th fire commissioner after serving as a member of the FDNY for 26 years. Following two years of active duty in the U.S. Naval Submarine Service, He went to proby school in May 1970. He was assigned to Ladder Company 42 in the South Bronx, where he spent spend over 15 years as a firefighter and also became the company delegate to the Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA). We will get the whole skinny. You don’t want to miss this one. In 1993 Von Essen was elected as President of the Uniformed Firefighters Association representing the department's firefighters. He was appointed the 30th FDNY Commissioner of the City of New York by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani on April 15, 1996, and served in that position until the end of the Giuliani Administration on December 31, 2001, nearly four months after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Join us at the Kitchen Table on the BEST FIREFIGHTER PODCAST ON THE INTERNET! You can also Listen to our podcast ...we are on all the players #lovethisjob #GiveBackMoreThanYouTake #Oldschool