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The IAFF has produced a video explaining the issues and exploding the myths of the public pension crisis. It is a follow-up to the Matt Taibbi article in Rolling Stone Magazine - "The Looting of Pension Funds".

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Legal Considerations for Fire & Emergency Services 730 Pages/Softcover/August 2014 ISBN: 978-1-59370-347-9 Price: $89.00 The third edition of J. Curtis Varone’s Legal Considerations for Fire & Emergency Services is an essential textbook for any course on fire service law as ...

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Martin Pang, the convicted arsonist of the fire that killed four Seattle firefighters in 1995, has been accused of an elaborate scam to steal money from firefighters, their families, police officers and witnesses in the case. The FBI, state police ...

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How long is too long? When it comes to the duration of consent decrees intended to address discriminatory practices in fire departments, that is a question that many firefighters ask. In the case of Leesville, Louisiana it took 32 years ...

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Family members and defense attorneys of five people convicted of causing a massive explosion in Kansas City, Missouri in 1988 that killed six firefighters, claim they have new evidence which raises a doubt about their guilt. The explosion at a ...

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Fire Chief Dennis Rubin is one of the most forward thinking chiefs of this era (hey… you guys from DC and Atlanta… yeah you… put down those rocks… hear me out… you too Hookman). Dennis Rubin is also the most ...

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Today’s burning question: We were at an emergency scene and a car came driving up really fast, totally disregarding our safety. I even shined my flashlight directly at the driver but he kept on coming. Out of frustration I threw ...

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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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This month in Firehouse Magazine, my Fire Law column Can a Homeowner Just Say No focused on the right of firefighters to enter onto someone’s property with or without their permission to investigate and extinguish a fire. From the phone calls, ...

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Happy New Year!!!! Its time to take a look at the most important and most bizarre fire service legal cases of 2011. First, the three most important cases: Westmoreland v. Sutherland, was a 1st Amendment case handed down by the ...

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The family of a Chicago firefighter killed in 2010, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the property owners of the vacant building where the fire occurred. Firefighters Edward Stringer, 47, and Corey Ankum, 34, were killed in a collapse ...

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It appears that the final settlement agreement has been reached in the Charleston Sofa Super Store fire suits. The June 18, 2007 fire killed nine firefighters. Nineteen separate suits have been filed in the case, including suits by the estates ...

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Here’s an interesting story about a lawsuit from 25 years ago: Firefighters’ lawsuit served as impetus for fire commission | SeacoastOnline.com.

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That is a bizarre question, and as phrased is not a totally accurate statement about a problem that is really worth discussing. However, the term “refusal AMA” has become so engrained into our vernacular that hopefully you catch my drift. ...

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