Posts Tagged: Galveston
Fire engine rolls in Galveston County, Texas. One firefighter hurt. More apparatus news.
In Galveston County, Texas last night, a Dickinson fire truck on the way to a wires arcing call slid off a crumbling, freshly paved road into a ditch and turned onto its side. The chief of the department called it a "slow roll". One firefight…
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The Mess in La Marque
Law school professors are notorious for coming up with strange fact patterns to use on final exams. However, I find that real life in the fire service can top even the best hypothetic questions a law school professor can dream up.
Take the law suit…
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The Hammer Drops in FDNY Case
Ok, so maybe it was not a hammer that dropped, it was a gavel, but the metaphor is clearly there: something big happened in the Big Apple on January 21, 2010.
Just one week after Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis determined FDNY had intentionally discriminated…
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Four More Suits in Charleston, SC
Four more suits have been filed in the aftermath of the Sofa Super Store fire in Charleston, SC on behalf of four Charleston firefighters who fought the June 18, 2007 blaze. The firefighters claim that they have experienced post traumatic stress, depress…
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Curlew, Washington Fatal Fire Sparks Lawsuit
Here is an interesting case arising out of a fatal fire in Curlew, Washington.
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FDNY Spanked Hard for Race Discrimination
A major decision in the FDNY race discrimination hiring case was delivered yesterday, January 13, 2010, and it’s impact is only now starting to sink in. In a 70 page ruling, Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis lambasted FDNY for ignoring statistical imbalance n…
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Verdict in PA Vehicular Homicide Case: NOT GUILTY
The jury came back in the vehicular homicide case of Pennsylvania EMT Jason Fait today, and the verdict was not guilty. Fait was charged after an October 30, 2006 accident involving a Penn Township ambulance that he was driving claimed the life of Frank …
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Morning Lineup – November 14
found out that the driver/owner is a local used-car salesman who bought the Bugatti a few months ago from another dealer in Arkansas
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