Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding reverse discrimination may have implications for a recent round of Austin Fire Department promotions.
In Ricci et al vs. Destefano et al., the high court Monday ruled 5-4 in favor of white, New Haven, Conn. firefighters who said they were victims of reverse discrimination after the city threw out their [...]
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
New Haven was wrong to scrap a promotion exam because no African-Americans and only two Hispanic firefighters were likely to be [...]
Tug of wars within the Brownsville Fire Department that have brewed for years have escalated with a dog, named Chief, now at the center of controversy and the mayor’s proposal to oust the fire chief.
For now, Mayor Pat M. Ahumada Jr.’s proposal to evaluate and seek the ouster of city Fire Chief Lenny Perez at [...]
Three people were killed Thursday morning in a house explosion in the Flour Bluff area that authorities believe was accidental.
The three bodies found in the rubble had not been identified late Thursday, but police said the three people who lived in the house in the 900 block of Greenbay Drive were the only people unaccounted [...]
To say he’s a survivor would be an understatement. Firefighter Lorenzo Abundiz is a champion. On Tuesday, he celebrated his third successful win over cancer by banging the gong at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The ceremony also marked the end of the Californian’s stay at Houston Fire station 33.
That’s where Houston firefighters took him [...]
Walking into the fire engine bay of Central Fire Station on Tuesday morning, Ellery Stowell waited and stood with his right hand balancing his weight on his cane. A Midland firefighter had told Stowell — an MFD firefighter who retired early from the department after a 2002 motorcycle crash almost killed him — that he [...]
El Paso police and firefighters will be asked to temporarily forego their pay raises in the next fiscal year to help the city balance a budget that will continue to take beating in the national recession. But first,...
A 29-year-old Waco man was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday for intentionally setting a fire that destroyed the historic Sanger Avenue Elementary School. Kevin David Allen pleaded guilty to first-degree felony arson and was sentenced to...
Several area fire departments spent nearly four hours battling a huge wildfire in the Harrisburg Community on Farm to Market Road 1738, off of Highway 63 East and just east of Jasper. The blaze broke out at...
Fire gutted a San Leon family’s hurricane-damaged house that was just a few weeks shy being move-in ready, a fire official said Thursday. The response to the fire took an odd twist when a San Leon volunteer firefighter...
For the second time in a little over a week, Tarkington firefighters found themselves responding to multiple calls in a twenty-four hour period. The first call came in shortly after 2 PM on Friday afternoon, dispatching both Cleveland...
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