Tag Archives: Cleveland Fire Department

The firefighter at the center of a subbing scandal in Cleveland several years ago, has filed suit claiming his termination in 2014 constituted race discrimination. Calvin Robinson was charged in 2013 with felony theft in office and misdemeanor receiving improper compensation for paying other firefighters to work his shift.

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Thirty-five Cleveland firefighters are being disciplined for working in violation of the department’s secondary employment policy. The discipline follows an investigation prompted by a local TV Station, WOIO-TV Channel 19, that proclaimed “some Cleveland firefighters [were] violating the policy on part-time work, putting themselves and citizens at risk.”

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A Facebook post that prompted over 60,000 responses including comments from Hillary Clinton and other elected officials, prompted a post from Cleveland firefighter that is now the center of an investigation. On July 3, Humans of New York posted a photo of a weeping child saying, “I’m homosexual and I’m afraid about what my future will be and that people won’t like me.”

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Two Cleveland firefighters who were injured while a serving as part of an honor guard have filed suit against three parties they claim are responsible for an ammunition mixup that led to live grenade-launching rounds being mixed in with blank cartridge

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A Cleveland firefighter who was charged with submitting a false report following an apparatus accident has been found not guilty by a jury. Last June, firefighter Richard Nickerson, 42, was driving Cleveland’s Ladder 36 when it drove into a light tower in a parking lot. Nickerson and his officer, Capt. Ronald Vargo, 50, allegedly submitted reports stating Ladder 36 was cut-off by a white car.

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A surveillance video has been released showing the crash of a Cleveland ladder truck in a parking lot last June. Two firefighters, the driver and the officer, have been charged criminally with submitting false reports about how the accident occurred. Fire Captain Ron Vargo and Firefighter Richard Nickerson blamed the crash on a vehicle that cut them off...

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We started this week with too many fire law stories to cover them all and that is exactly how we will end it!

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The Cleveland firefighter at the center of a major substitution scandal that involved dozens of firefighters, has been terminated. Calvin Robinson, a 23 year veteran, was terminated yesterday. Last month he pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of complicity to ...

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I am not sure how we missed this infamous YCMTSU headline last month but discipline was finally meted out in the Cleveland urinal case from last summer. The incident occurred on August 16, 2013, two days after Cleveland Fire Chief ...

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Cleveland Firefighters, IAFF Local 93 have filed suit against the city of Cleveland claiming the city is violating state law by failing to promote an eligible candidate to the fire chief’s position within ten days of a vacancy becoming open. ...

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Thirteen Cleveland firefighters have been indicted in the subbing scandal we first reported last year. Recall in January, 2012 a former federal prosecutor was named to investigate charges that members were paying other members to work their shifts. Then in ...

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A Cleveland firefighter who has been at the center of the substitution abuse scandal has pled guilty to criminal charges and will serve 60 days in prison. Firefighter Timothy Debarr was sentenced to 60 days in jail and will pay ...

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The city of Cleveland has hired former Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Bakeman to head up the investigation into the Cleveland Fire Department’s overtime scandal. Bakeman’s appointment was announced earlier this week as the department struggles to address allegations that some ...

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