By ANGELA MONTEFINISE
The New York Post
A “severe staffing crisis” in the Fire Department’s EMT division has cost a group of medics their promotions to the Fire Academy, according to their union - and they are not happy about it.
A group of 26 EMTs were slated to start at the fire academy tomorrow, but received word from their union Friday night that their promotions had gone up in smoke.
“We got a call out of the blue saying, ‘Sorry, but you’re not going to start at the academy after all,’ ” said one furious FDNY-EMT, who has been waiting for 13 years to become a firefighter...
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