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A Minnesota city that eliminated all five of its career firefighters as part of a restructuring in 2015, has agreed to pay those firefighters $3.9 million in damages. The City of Brainerd’s agreement to compensate the firefighters brings to a close a seven-year legal-saga.

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A contentious restructuring of a combination fire department in New York that has already led to one lawsuit, just took a shocking turn as career firefighters accuse the volunteer fire chief of telling volunteers to break all the windows in the house of a career firefighter if it has a fire.

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Firefighters in Brainerd, Minnesota have filed suit against the city alleging that plans to restructure the fire department by eliminating full-time firefighters and establishing a fully paid-on call department is illegal. IAFF Local 4725 filed suit against the city in Crow Wing County District Court alleging that the restructuring violates the Minnesota Public Employees Labor Relations Act.

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