Legal Issues
Denver’s Deputy Director of Safety noted the assistant chief violated department policies including possession of firearms on city property
The Justice Department found Blacks disproportionately failed Durham’s firefighter test, blocking interviews, though the test wasn’t job-related
One of two fire prevention chiefs admitted to taking more than $5,000 over three years to fast-track inspections
A lawsuit filed by the La Verne Firefighters Association alleges Battalion Chief Michael Thompson took more than 250 videos and 1,500 photos of union members
The city filed suit in 2017 to dispute a judge’s decision that firefighter Carrie Stewart should receive workers’ compensation after her cancer diagnosis
Two Aurora firefighters detained Lester Bernard when he was pursued out into the parking lot of the bank, and kept him there until police arrived
Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District Chief Dennis Reilly is stepping down from the position he has held since 2012
The incident happened when a man driving a black pickup pulled up to a Holly fire station, put on the mask and started howling
Utica fire Chief Russell Brooks claims his chronic lymphocytic leukemia resulted from responding to New York City to support 9/11 recovery efforts
Jerry Elmo Jr. was terminated for an inability to “perform essential functions,” but claimed he was injured as a “direct result of ... negligence”
Ashley Bemis is suspected of creating a nonexistent husband to bilk good Samaritans out of at least $11,000 in donations she claimed would help firefighters
Jem Ibrahimov’s attorney is arguing that he should not face stiff bail because “he’s an artist” who “worked as a painter”
Volunteer firefighter Christopher Gallagher claimed a Surfside Beach captain and fire chief allegedly said, “We’re not hiring someone who can’t read”
A rape case against an Idaho prison inmate working at a Utah wildfire base camp raises safety questions for vulnerable crews
City fire marshals arrested 42-year-old Jem Ibrahimov on Saturday after he allegedly returned to the scene of the crime
Two firefighters were responding to reports of an unconscious man in a car when the driver allegedly drove straight into them, striking one
Jared Evans faces a maximum sentence of three years in county jail and must register as a sex offender
For the second time this month, a member of Payne Springs Fire Rescue has been charged with at least one felony
Ruben Ochoa Cruz set a fire at a RoomPlace warehouse that caused $122 million in damage after getting in an argument with his boss about overtime
Jason Persyn drove people who were touring the station on a fire truck without permission from his supervisors, according to officials
The court decided that the firefighters, who claimed a fire truck siren damaged their hearing, could not prove that another brand would have been safer
An official said Scioto Township Fire Department Chief Porter Welch was fired for several reasons including failure to submit a balanced budge
Fire officials said the man had to be forcibly removed from a fire truck after he hit two firefighters and attempted to drive away in the rig
Authorities released few details about a possible motive or the suspect, but said they believe he may have known the victim, Jack Wiley II
The Board of Fire Commissioners changed its policy to give the watchdog, or the Office of the Independent Assessor, access to unredacted transcripts and evidence
Amie Morningstar, the first full-time female firefighter on that community’s force, filed suit in late 2015 and was fired in early 2016
Commissioner Willard Wiles insulted a police officer, who is also a volunteer firefighter, when he resigned from the force amidst excessive force allegations
Police said Arlen Fernandez had “cocaine crumbles” in his truck, which were found in an investigation of all three Key West Fire Department stations after a tip-off
Garivaldi Castillo, 33, and Julio Salcedo, 36, were charged in the death of 44-year-old Battalion Chief Michael Fahy, a 17-year FDNY veteran
Police said Luis Guerrero was choked, stabbed, set on fire and run over with an SUV before being set on fire again
The lawsuit claims the firefighters might not have become trapped in a burning house if the closest fire truck able to carry water had been in service that night
The man told firefighters he just got out of prison and thought someone was chasing him with a weapon
The Bargersville Fire Department used their drone to locate a man suspected of stealing a car and driving into a corn field
