The former police lieutenant, Venton "Vic" Hollifield, refused to honor Mayor Bloomberg's request to make nice to the FDNY. The mayor, in a press conference hours earlier, had called the ex-cop's comments "an outrage."
"Bloomberg's support for the fire department is a mile long and an inch deep. He's the one who let the firehouses close," Hollifield said in an interview.
During last week's episode of ABC-TV's "NYPD 24/7," Hollifield was shown at the scene of an accident two years ago, shortly before he retired.
He called the firefighters at the scene "amateurs at work
