She’s third generation, and her name is Brooke, and they are otherwise keeping her full name out of the papers, but she’s in.
Her family has a long history of firefighting, starting at least three generations ago with Brooke’s grandfather, and continuing to her father, an FDNY officer who responded to the Twin Towers on 9/11.
Department sources told the Post some insensitive colleagues might have a hard time dealing with her gender change, but one veteran member said “Especially among those who know the [family], this won’t amount to a hill of beans to them. There’s a lot of respect for the family.”
Oh yes.