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Former N.Y. firefighter suing city

By BRIAN DWYER
News10.com

Back in November, when Elijah Tezeno graduated from the Fire Academy, he said it was one of the proudest days of his life. But a little over a month later, he was fired.

Not because of performance, but because of what his lawyer says was a mistake. On his application, he checked “no” to the question of whether or not he’d been fired from a previous job.

He was a Human Resources Assistant on Fort Drum when he was suspended for a comment he made. Even though he never formally quit, Tezeno says he had no intentions of coming back to work until his situation was resolved. But a week later he was fired.

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