“Fire Mitigation” are not first responders: they’re private entities that listen to the FDNY’s radio frequencies and follow them around. They’re ambulance chasers and that’s always been a scummy domain; it’d be much more surprising (and worse) if FDNY themselves were somehow involved.
In New York it has gotten so bad that even first responders have been subverted
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/gang-members-and-others...