MANHATTAN, New York—Dozens of NYC firehouses may close on Monday as a result of a vaccine mandate placed on city workers by Mayor Bill de Blasio, according to Uniformed Firefighters Association President Andrew Ansbro. Prior to a press conference on Friday, Ansbro told The Epoch Times outside a firehouse near Penn Station that it had been closed nine hours on Friday due to a staffing shortage. Thousands of municipal workers took to the streets in protests earlier in the week after de Blasio announced a sweeping mandate requiring the entire municipal workforce to get vaccinated, with no testing option. Firefighters want to be recognized for their natural immunity, gained after a large percentage of them had already been infected and beat the virus. There has only been one NYC firefighter death to COVID-19 during the entire CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. The union is not anti-vaccine but is against the mandate. …