FDNY’s calendar of smoke-show firefighters set to return

Get acceptable for the fume show.

The FDNY is gearing up to acceptable the Big Apple ablaze with its famous hunk-filled calendar making a fiery comeback adjacent year.

The iconic “Calendar of Heroes” — known for splashing blistery firefighters, EMTs and paramedics across its pages — is returning successful 2026 aft a three-year hiatus.

The FDNY’s iconic “Calendar of Heroes” is making a fiery comeback successful 2026 aft a little hiatus. FDNY FOUNDATION

“We are excited for the instrumentality of the FDNY Calendar of Heroes,” FDNY Commissioner Robert S. Tucker said.

“The calendar presents an accidental to item our Best and Bravest, portion helping fundraise for the captious ngo of the FDNY Foundation.”

The sizzling calendar, which was initially canned owed to dwindling income aft the COVID pandemic, is being enactment retired by the FDNY Foundation — a nonprofit that raises funds for Gotham’s occurrence instrumentality and training.

“It was 1 of the astir in-demand items we’ve had, a palmy fundraising instrumentality for years — and we’ve gotten tremendous involvement successful it already,” said Matt DiLiberto, the foundation’s chairman.

“The caller calendar volition let america to showcase the health, fittingness and wellness of the FDNY, and picture our firefighters, EMTs and paramedics arsenic the heroes they are.”

After years of being a beefcake bonanza, the FDNY Foundation started including pistillate firefighters successful 2014.

Firehouse Subs, a Florida-based sandwich shop, has besides travel connected committee arsenic a sponsor to assistance administer the upcoming smoke-show portraits.

It wasn’t instantly wide who would beryllium chosen to grace the 2026 calendar’s pages.

Vying participants were precocious asked to commencement submitting their glamor shots.

The calendar had been astir for decades earlier accumulation was halted amid the pandemic.

After years of being a beefcake bonanza, the instauration opted to commencement including pistillate firefighters successful 2014. Then successful 2017, the instauration started doling retired a men’s and a women’s variation earlier adding animals to the premix soon after.

The 2026 calendar volition acceptable New Yorkers backmost $25 a popular and is expected to beryllium released towards the process extremity of the year.