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NEW YORK CITY - A high-ranking FDNY official resigned under fire after bizarrely leading a group of mostly black students at a Brooklyn high school in a “cotton-ball relay race” that some critics called racist, The Post has learned.
FDNY Assistant Commissioner Michele Maglione, 57, head of the department’s Youth Workforce Development, saw her nearly 20-year career flame out after engaging some 35 kids in the game on Aug. 21 during a summer “leadership academy” at the FDNY-Capt. Vernon A. Richard High School for Fire and Life Safety.
The goofy game — historically popular at summer camps — involved teams of players with petroleum jelly smeared on their faces picking up cotton balls with their heads, hands tied behind their backs, to see who could carry the most balls across the classroom. It was billed as a “team-building exercise.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/20/us-news/f ... yc-school/