Thirty-one taxpayers in Cimarron Hills, Colorado have filed suit against the Cimarron Hills Fire Protection District challenging the district’s tax rate, and seeking over $2 million that was illegally collected going back to 2004. The suit was filed on December ...

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A New Jersey Superior Court Judge ruled today that the City of Orange Township can move forward with plans to layoff 50 employees including police and firefighters. Police, fire and city worker unions filed suit on January 6, 2011 to ...

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The Fire Chief of Marion County Fire District #1 in Oregon has been cited following a December 31, 2010 accident that occurred while he was responding to a building fire. Chief J. Kevin Henson, 44, was cited for driving an ...

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A defamation lawsuit filed last year by an angry property owner against a Kentucky fire department and its fire chief has been dismissed. David Young, owner of Vincent Apartments, sued the city of Ashland and Fire Chief Scott Penick over ...

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Another lawsuit has been filed over the January 9, 2009 apparatus accident that claimed the life of Boston Fire Lieutenant Kevin M. Kelley. The accident occurred when Boston Ladder 26 lost its brakes going down a steep hill and crashed ...

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Detroit Mayor David Bing has terminated his top two fire officials, and Detroit's Fox News affiliate is  claiming their investigative reporting prompted the reaction. Fire Commissioner James Mack Junior and Deputy Commissioner Seth Doyle complied with the mayor's request for their resignations ...

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Apopka firefighter Jason Leblanc, 44, has resigned following the disclosure that he set another firefighter, 25-year-old Jack Shumate, on fire at a holiday party on December 18, 2010. Shumate sustained second degree burns and has not returned to work since ...

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The Austin Firefighters Association, IAFF Local 975, has filed a grievance challenging the city’s new hiring process. The union supports the recommendations of a consultant who was paid $500,000 by the city to develop a new process, but complains that ...

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Over the past few weeks, I have been working on a fire-law year in review article and I was blown away at how many major legal decisions were handed down in January and to a lesser extent February of 2010. ...

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