FDNY to firefighters: No taking pics at holiday parties

The FDNY’s firefighters and EMS workers are such social-media misfits that they were banned from taking any photos or videos at their station holiday parties this year, The Post has learned.

The order targets on-duty members in their “quarters” around the city.

“Members of the department are prohibited from taking photographs, videotaping or recording audio while working unless authorized to do so by the [Office of Public Information],” the directive says.

The ban put a damper on annual firehouse holiday parties, which are attended by both on- and off-duty members and their families.

“So, if one of my kids wants to sit on Santa’s lap in the firehouse — he’s not going to get his Kodak moment,” a source grumbled. “It’s a shame that because of a few knuckleheads, the kids have to suffer.”

Some on-duty firefighters and emergency medical technicians are “probably breaking the rules and taking photographs anyway,” but they do it at their own peril, the source said.

“If they get caught and the department wants to enforce the rules, they’re screwed.”

The source blames a few bad eggs who “act like children and need to grow up.”

“Some of these guys should not be on Facebook and Twitter. Facebook is the real problem. They lay out their entire lives on these social-media sites. Why do you have to do that?”

An FDNY spokesman declined comment.

Earlier this month, black probationary firefighter Trilain Smith was barred from his graduation ceremony because he used the N-word on Facebook to refer to his superiors and posted seminude selfies.

The 35-year-old ex-rapper ranted online, “These n- - -as try to kill you start to finish!” after listing the tests he had to pass to graduate.

In March, the son of city Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano resigned as an EMT following a series of hate-filled tweets.

“I like Jews as much as I like Hitler,” Joseph Cassano, 23, wrote in one of his tweets.

Also, in March, The Post revealed that EMS Lt. Timothy Dluhos used an image of Hitler for his Twitter profile and “Bad Lieutenant” as his online name as he went on a verbal tirade.

Dluhos called Mayor Bloomberg “King Jew” and King Heeb” in one rant.

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