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A federal court has ruled that a fifty-year-old consent decree that mandated strict race-conscious hiring quotas for Massachusetts fire departments has achieved its intended goals in all but three communities, and will be terminated on December 31, 2024. The consent decree was the result of a series of lawsuits brought in the early 1970s by the Boston Chapter of the NAACP.

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A Lawrence, Massachusetts firefighter who was denied a disability pension for an asthma condition, has been terminated. Tim Atwood, 49, a Lawrence firefighter since 2004, was terminated last week. He has been out of work since January 11, 2012, when ...

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A Pennsylvania fire chief has been arrested for drunk driving to an EMS run early Sunday morning. Fire Chief Donald Hindman Jr., 49, of the Cecil Volunteer Fire Department No. 1, was accused of having a blood alcohol content of .253. He ...

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