A Kansas City, Missouri Fire Department EMT has filed a class action lawsuit against the city alleging that overtime pay for EMTs and paramedics has been improperly calculated. Marissa Hermsen filed suit yesterday alleging that EMTs and paramedics should receive ...

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Bill Carey from Backstepfirefighter.com has posted on a very interesting fire out of Pennsylvania. The fire department took a defensive strategy pursuant to a “no entry rule” because the house had been condemned due to the dangers associated with the ...

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A volunteer firefighter is in serious trouble in Pennsylvania for what appears to have been a highly inappropriate prank involving a minor. Chad Richey, 29, of the Citizen’s Hose Company No. 1 in  Glassport, has been charged with sexual abuse ...

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Four Tennessee volunteer firefighters have been charged with arson in connection with a series of recent fires, including one that destroyed a fire station. The suspects are all members of the Houston County Fire Department, and according to local officials ...

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Funding for the Macon Fire and Police Retirement System has been a hotly debated subject in the Georgia county for many months.  Pension Board members had asked the city to put in enough funds to make up for 18 months ...

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Today’s burning question: Can discussing politics in a fire station land you in trouble? Would it matter if the topic directly impacted you? How about if you were off duty and out of uniform when you made the remarks? Perhaps ...

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“We live in a culture of litigation now, and I suppose the fire service isn’t any different from any others in that sense.” Interesting quote … from a former firefighter … and South Ayrshire Councillor John Allan about the settlement ...

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Clark County firefighters have been under investigation by the FBI for having conspired to use sick time for their convenience, drastically increasing overtime payments in 2009. In the latest round of news, Battalion Chief Renee Dillingham, a 24-year veteran and ...

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The Chicago Fire Department’s hiring process has been the subject of a number of discrimination lawsuits over the years. Most recently, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals awarded $30 million in damages to 111 African-American firefighter applicants who had filed ...

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What would you do for an attorney who got you a $43.5 million settlement? What if the attorney only took a $1.5 million fee, not the more normal one-third? In Louisville, Kentucky, roughly 500 current and former firefighters who received ...

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An Ohio court has upheld an arbitrator’s ruling that a city must pay over $100,000 to nine fire officers who were wrongfully denied overtime. International Association of Firefighters Local 698, Xenia Firefighters filed a grievance in 2010 when the city ...

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The family of a veteran Salem, Oregon firefighter who committed suicide in 2009, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

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The FDNY race discrimination case that has held up hiring for nearly five years continues to grind toward resolution with two rulings last week. On Tuesday U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis issued an order to lower the application fee from $54 ...

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The city of Tulsa has removed a controversial lawsuit brought by Tulsa Firefighters IAFF Local 176 in state court, to Federal court. The suit was filed by Local 176 on June 22, 2011 seeking to block an executive order that prohibits ...

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