An administrative law judge's conclusion that the termination of an African-American deputy fire chief at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport involved racial discrimination was correct, according to a ruling issued Monday. Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Glenn L. Klavans agreed with the November ruling that found Gregory Lawrence "had been terminated for an illegal reason, in violation of the prohibition against racial discrimination.
- PUB DATE: 8/18/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: capital gazette

Something as simple as the town finance administrator having a copy of a contract may have prevented the town's former fire chief from misappropriating more than $270,000 that should have gone into town coffers. Richard Fowler was sentenced July 1 in Strafford Superior Court to New Hampshire State Prison for 3 to 6 years and ordered to pay restitution for the amount he used personally, which is believed to be more than $216,100.
- PUB DATE: 8/18/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: seacost online

Fuming firefighters say an FDNY lieutenant almost died because he wasn’t told by law-enforcement officials that the home he was racing into housed an armed Bloods gang leader suspected in two murders. The firefighter, James Hayes, was shot twice by suspect Garland Tyree in the smoky Staten Island home Friday morning.
- PUB DATE: 8/18/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: new york post

Cincinnati firefighters are wondering how they’re going to maneuver around the streetcar’s overhead wires in case the upper floors of a building along the route catch fire. “We’re concerned,” said Matt Alter, president of firefighters’ union. “We just don’t have enough information about what you can and can’t do around them.
- PUB DATE: 8/18/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cincinnati enquirer

Wheaton Maryland Rescue Squad fire captains Adam St. John and Brett Russell call helmet-mounted cameras invaluable. "I think it makes anybody that wears them a better firefighter," said St. John. Video from St. John's helmet shows a house fire just days before Christmas in which Russell calls for help after falling through a floor.
- PUB DATE: 8/18/2015 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: cbs news