When New York’s vaccine mandate led to critical shortages in hospitals, Cuomo’s replacement called out the National Guard. Should the Guard also be called out to run New York City firehouses? 

Or maybe just the Governor and Mayor’s offices.

The FDNY shuttered 26 fire companies citywide on Saturday due to staff shortages caused by the COVID-19 vaccination mandate, according to furious elected officials, who ripped the move as “unconscionable” — and warned it could have catastrophic consequences.

No kidding.

In familiar fashion, New York City, like Chicago and Portland, and other ultra-blue cities are turning to rural and suburban forces to try and bail them out. And I doubt that the bailouts for New York City will be any likelier than for Portland and Chicago.

In anticipation of a shortage of firefighters, NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit has requested the help of volunteer firefighters from Long Island and upstate to back fill the lost positions, according to an email obtained by The Post.

Good luck with that.

The vaccine mandate is also hitting the NYPD.

The 77th Precinct in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was slow to respond to calls Friday night as four officers on the 4 p.m.-to-midnight shift called in sick, sources said. Call logs showed response times of more than two hours in some cases.

Crown Heights is a dangerous area with regular shootings so I’m sure this will be fine.