Bergin, who was 9 at the time, works at Ladder 157 in Brooklyn. “I wanted to be a firefighter for as long as I can remember,” Bergin Jr., 32, said, in a post on the FDNY’s Instagram page.

instagram/stretch_mbh/ But the FDNY insists the firefighter — who appears to be Ladder 2 Capt. James Sicilian, a 25-year veteran and avid skateboarder — has been traveling to work by ...