Legal Issues
Manhattan Beach firefighters sue city officials for failing to fill vacant positions and requiring overtime shifts
Waterford Fire Chief Kevin Hafemann resigned after a meeting that the former fire commission chair said violates state law
Uvalde families file suit against nearly 100 state police officers following a report that listed “cascading failures” in training, communication, leadership and technology problems
Neighbors express concern over noise levels and environmental contamination
Negative Facebook comments about protestors may have been wrong, but were their terminations right?
The firefighter claims his captain blocked visibility by parking a rig across the station, where he was then struck by an oncoming vehicle
The suit said the website used by William Baun with the words “Woodbury Firefighter/EMT” amount to false advertising, consumer fraud and trademark infringement
The separate incidents in which all three firefighters were arrested
Colly Fisher charges that even women who succeed are held to higher standards than men
The uniforms were stolen from a laundromat a week before the arrest
The judge told CSX and Union Tank Car that the state’s “Policeman and Fireman Rule” does not allow companies to harm responders without financial consequence
Union officials say the 44 firefighters were deprived overtime pay due to an oversight, not wrongdoing
William Rhodes was charged after crashing his truck into a porch on the Fourth of July
Fire chief: The Lt. failed to communicate and collaborate with EMS, including sitting on a rig instead of escorting them to a patient
A Florida sheriff’s office says the two took 41 pictures with incapacitated patients; complaints from other medics sparked the investigation
The lawsuit says that a short in a poorly maintained electrical junction box sparked a blaze that charred about 43 square miles
The firefighter who drove the truck said he thought the traffic light was green and used the horn before crossing
Off-duty firefighter Chief George Cook reportedly rendered aid while bleeding from the neck
The defendant led police on a high-speed chase, ran a stop sign and hit the van driven by 35-year-old volunteer firefighter Stephen Cook
Similarities between the business world and the fire service on diversity informs the depth of the issue
Authorities say the men left a poorly extinguished campfire that sparked the fire Saturday, forcing evacuations of nearly 2,000 people
Norman Brooks was placed on leave Wednesday following a slew of inflammatory Facebook posts about police shootings
No one was hurt, but prosecutors said one of the firebombs landed where a woman and her baby had just been sleeping
San Diego police arrested Anthony Alexander Padgett, 36, on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in the attacks on mostly sleeping men, some of whom were set on fire
The termination comes after months of public outcry over the chief’s questionable actions at an industry conference
Gregory Lee Butler Jr., 22, pleaded guilty to puncturing a hose that the Baltimore City Fire Department was using to put out a fire in a CVS pharmacy
Police say one man is responsible for all four attacks, two fatal, carried out over four days remains at large
The firefighter called for police to be shot following the recent shooting of a black man in Baton Rouge by a white police officer
Ray Abou-Arab is accused of using an accelerant to burn an apartment building he owned where two Toledo firefighters died
Anthony Miceli is accused of stealing money from the firefighter’s nonprofit association that raises money for charities and firefighting equipment
The 51-year-old allegedly supplied a part-time Lakeville firefighter with alcohol and then raped and assaulted him on two occasions
Shane Streater filed for disability after claiming to be injured; he is now sentenced to 7 years in prison
Jamie Wilson said she’s been bullied and harassed for nearly 10 years, but has had no help from her union
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