Firefighters outraged FDNY is searching phone records for press leaks

FDNY firefighterꦍs are fighting the department’s snooping into their personal phone recꦏords to hunt the source of news leaks.

Outraged by FDNY tactics — including subpoenaing cellphone records — the Uniformed Fire Officers Association “strongly recommends” that members not give the departmentꦅ their numbers and delete them from their personnel files, The Post has learned.

The department needs cellphone numbers to reach off-duty p𝓡ersonnel in a major emergency. But recently it has been searching phone records to check if members called reporters.

“The FDNY is so paranoid about leaks to the media, they’re scanning p🧔hone records and have a dedicated operatio🐓n to flush them out,” a retired member said. “They’re more concerned about bad press than their bad policy.”

FDNY spokesman Jim Long de𒁏clined to comment on “open an▨d active investigations.”