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Baltimore Mayor announces promotion of deceased fire recruit
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February 26, 2007

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Baltimore Mayor announces promotion of deceased fire recruit


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 Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon announced a posthumous promotion yesterday for city Fire Apprentice Racheal M. Wilson, who was killed Feb. 9 in a flawed live-fire training exercise. Mayor Dixon hopes that her decision will allow Wilson's two children to receive full pension benefits. Baltimore Fire Chief William Goodwin and union officials are in support of the mayor's decisionFull Story

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