The attorney general for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has taken the drastic step of suing three emergency service organizations and their officers in an effort to seek an accounting of public and charitable funds and property. Named as defendants in ...

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Today’s Burning Question: Is it cheating if everyone does it? I mean, if everyone taking an exam looks at the answer key, or helps each other then that can’t be cheating, right? It would only be cheating if a certain ...

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Threats, demotions, increased hours with no additional compensation, and numerous punitive changes in working conditions. That is what four California firefighters allege their fire chief did to them earlier this year upon learning they were forming a union. They have ...

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It is an issue that firefighters and politicians can never seem to agree on: should officers be in the same bargaining unit as firefighters. That is the issue in Columbia County, Florida as the newly formed IAFF Local 4895 seeks to ...

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As the anniversary of the Memorial Day 2011 drowning of Raymond Zack approaches, his family filed a wrongful death suit against the city and county of Alameda. The suit was filed Friday in Alameda County Superior Court alleging that officials ...

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What role should politics play in the fire service? Now there’s a question for the ages! That question is at the heart of a law suit filed last week by Dighton Massachusetts Fire Chief Antone Roderick Jr.  However the politicians ...

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A Sacramento homeowner whose vacant rental property was destroyed in a natural gas explosion in 2010, is suing the Sacramento City Fire Department for over $1 million. Christopher Liu’s property was destroyed on July 5, 2010 in an explosion that ...

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It is almost beyond belief, even for someone who lectures regularly on the subject of “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up”. A fire chief, Kenneth Ellerbe, disciplining two chief officers who serve as hearing officers – administrative fact finders – ...

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A terminated Illinois firefighter has filed a rather unusual lawsuit following his dismissal. He is not suing his former employer, but rather is suing another community and one of its police officers alleging that he lost his job due to ...

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A Florida fire chief is being investigated by the state fire marshal’s office to determine if his firefighter certification has lapsed. Fire Chief Ben Greenslait of the Freeport Fire Department is under scrutiny based on a complaint filed by his ...

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The Paris, France Fire Brigade is reeling following the revelation that a recruit on the department’s elite gymnastics team had been sodomized and sexually assaulted by teammates. The incident allegedly occurred May 6, 2012 as the team was returning from ...

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Two volunteer fire departments from Virginia are in the news today, both victims of insider theft by high ranking officials. In Louisa County, fire chief Mark McGheen of the Trevilans Volunteer Fire Department stands accused of embezzling thousands of dollars ...

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The jury in the first of two wrongful death lawsuits brought against E-One, E-One dealer Hall Mark Fire Apparatus, and the Kilgore Fire Department has concluded that the defendants were jointly responsible for the 2009 deaths of Kyle Perkins and ...

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Statter911 just broke the story about Miami-Dade fire captain Brian Beckmann’s demotion to firefighter, and the requirement that he undergo a psychological examination and take diversity training. Captain Beckmann created a furor after he posted comments on his personal Facebook ...

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