Black FDNY employees plan to hit the department with a $150 million federal lawsuit charging they have been discriminated against on the job, they announced Wednesday. In a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a lawsuit they plan to file later this year, 10 plaintiffs charge black workers were passed over for promotions and raises that white workers with similar or lesser qualifications received.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New York Daily News

The hospital where a Wilmington firefighter is recovering following a deadly Canby Park rowhouse fire said her condition has become more serious. Firefighter Ardythe Hope was downgraded to critical condition Wednesday at Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Upland, Pennsylvania, where she was taken after the Sept.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Wilmington News Journal (Delaware Online)

Clowns might be scaring kids across the country, but the Mansfield Fire Department is calling their bluff. Since 2003, Mansfield firefighters have dressed up as clowns to produce fire safety shows for the city’s elementary schools, and they aren’t going to let a new creepy clown trend stop them. But the firefighters don’t want to scare anyone.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Star-Telegram

After finding common ground with the city, the fire union Local 825 has withdrawn its prohibitive practice complaint regarding safety and labor concerns related to Office of Emergency Management Deputy Director Rick Fontana, who the bargaining unit alleged had been performing the duties of Fire Department employees.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: New Haven Register

A former Oklahoma firefighter is suing his former department after he says he was wrongfully terminated. Greg Chapman was a firefighter with the Tulsa Fire Department for nearly 20 years when a Facebook comment brought his career to a halt. According to FOX 23, Chapman commented on a viral video of a police officer threatening to take a man’s child away after mistaking him for a fugitive.
- PUB DATE: 10/13/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KFOR-TV NBC 4 Oklahoma City