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CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — Frustration boiled over during the training of Buffalo’s new fire recruits.
Sunday morning, retired Buffalo Firefighter Robert Jackson showed up at Erie County’s Fire Training Academy. The Cheektowaga Police report says Jackson expressed disgust with a fire lieutenant over a relative of Jackson’s who had to resign from the department. Jackson is accused of swinging and striking the lieutenant in the face. He’s charged with second degree harassment with physical contact.
A source familiar with this year’s class of 120 recruits says that so far, there has been an unusually high number of failed evaluations in the first four weeks. The source says 37 evaluations have been failed, but it’s not 37 different recruits failing, but some individuals failing two, three or even five physical evaluations so far.
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