A Florida fire lieutenant has filed a lawsuit claiming he has been passed over three times for promotion due to his military service. Lt. Dominick Landolfi, filed suit on June 10, 2011 against the City of Melbourne and Fire Chief ...

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The second defendant in the Deutsche Bank Building fire case has been acquitted of involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges. Jeffrey Melofchik, 49, walked out of court a free man, joining Salvatore DePaola, 56, who was acquitted yesterday. Three construction ...

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Here is one of those unfortunate “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” cases that may very well claim the career of a fire chief.  We have heard several versions of the facts – but what seems to be undisputed is ...

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Who is responsible for incidental damage to property during the course of a rescue effort? A resident of Bakersfield, California filed a complaint against the Bakersfield Fire Department claiming damages of approximately $9,000, after firefighters damaged his drive way, some ...

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There were a number of stories this past week that slipped by. Here are two, one from FDNY and one from DC: FDNY EMT David Taranto is accused of inappropriately touching a woman who was shaken up in a vehicle ...

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The Boston Fire Department has suspended 54 firefighters in the wake of a two-state EMS recertification scandal involving  EMTs in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. The suspensions follow a year-long internal BFD  investigation. The investigation found that 20 firefighters recertified twice ...

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Fire Department Discipline: How Much is Enough? A career firefighter and his company officer are accused of engaging in a road rage incident while their engine company is responding to an alarm. A three volunteer firefighters are accused of sexually ...

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Tulsa Firefighters, IAFF Local 176 have filed suit against the city challenging Mayor Dewey Bartlett’s executive order prohibiting firefighters from engaging in local political activities. The order is so broad that it applies to firefighters at any time, even while ...

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A Montana resident has filed suit to block a rural fire district from charging an accident response fee to owners of vehicles involved in accidents to which the fire department responds. The Polson Rural Fire District, a fully volunteer operation, ...

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The fire chief in Edgewater, Florida has gotten himself in hot water with the county EMS coordinator for ordering a patient to be transported to the hospital in a fire department vehicle rather than waiting for a private ambulance to ...

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Its been a busy day news wise, and four stories caught my attention. In San Francisco, two fire department applicants have filed suit in state court alleging they were discriminated against because they have diabetes. From the write up, it ...

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Two headlines from this past week got me thinking about just how far the anti-firefighter anti-public employee message has driven public opinion.  One headline was about a California civil grand jury that concluded it was wasteful to send engine companies ...

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An unusual case that was in the news a few weeks ago as a discipline case has resurfaced as a Federal Court sex discrimination case.  The details of the case are complicated, so let’s run through them quickly. On April ...

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The United States 6th Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a jury verdict in favor of a firefighters union, concluding that the City of Maryville did not violate the free speech rights of the union when it reprimanded the union ...

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