The investigation of a Harlem building blaze that killed a firefighter and disrupted production of a movie starring Edward Norton was rigged so Norton’s production company -- which was using the building for filming – would escape blame, an FDNY fire marshal claims. Fire Marshal Scott Specht, the lead investigator in the fire, accuses Chief Fire Marshal Thomas Kane, his deputy J.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

A former fire chief has filed a federal lawsuit against the Center Township Fire Department for more than 330 hours of overtime. Ernie Campbell alleges in his suit that he was fired over a time-off request and did not receive his compensatory time or pay for more than eight weeks since he began working for the department in 1989.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Lebanon Reporter

The Burlington Rescue Squad will hire temporary workers to help fill time slots for emergency medical technicians. In an agreement between the nonprofit squad and the city, the city will handle the hiring of the temporary workers but their salary will be paid for by the volunteer squad. The squad, a private entity run under the auspices of the Burlington Rotary Club, also serves the Town of Burlington.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Racine Journal Times

Retired Worcester firefighter John Griffin recalled how much it meant nearly two decades ago when other city employees stepped in to relieve the city’s fire personnel while they mourned their six colleagues killed in the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse Co. fire. Saturday, Mr. Griffin and some of his fellow retirees from the department will pay that favor forward to the city’s current firefighters when they grieve for Christopher J.
- PUB DATE: 12/17/2018 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Worcester Telegram & Gazette