Posts Tagged: New Haven 20
The New Haven Four- “What About Us?”
Four New Haven firefighters are claiming they've missed out on promotions that "would have been made" had the original list been certified way back when.
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360 Burn Size-up of the Fire Web 12/12/09
Finally, bugles and bagpipes for the New Haven 20 - Fire destroys a building that stood since before the war (The Revolutionary War) - Ladder bailout video show the value of training - all on today's 360 Burn.
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New Haven's Vargas and Ricci Testify in Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings
New Haven Lieutenants Ricci and Vargas have testified in Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings. If you have been following along, the entire case hits home in nearly every fire department across the Nation.
Most firefighters don't take promotions ligh…
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Just one of the guys
Women in the fire service have demanded and deserved equality. In the following video, one firefighter finds out the hard way. Female firefighter 1 ; male firefighter 0. If you could have, you should have kicked her butt! Then we wouldn't all be laughing…
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Considerations for Top Ten Fire, EMS, and Blog Categories
Usually, a top ten list only takes a couple hours to a couple day s to complete depending on the category.
Below are websites and blogs in their respective categories. If you have one that you think should be on the list but is not please let me know.
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Fiery Tanker Crash in Michigan
A tanker carrying a lot of flammable "stuff" wrecked and caught fire in Hazel Park Michigan. The fire occurred directly under an overpass. The bridge "overpass" later collapsed due to the heat and fire. You can watch the video here. I took a screen shot …
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Michael Jackson's Hair on Fire
Never before seen footage of Michael Jackson's hair catching fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial have surfaces. The link is here to the video. The footage is from 1984, 25 years ago. I remember the hype around the injury and I remember the fact…
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The Secret is out…The Fire Critic is Interviewed by Newspaper
Ok, I admit that I have tried to stay anonymous on this blog. The reason being not what is said by who but moreso I don't want "who says it" to cloud "what is said". Even though The Fire Critic is semi-anonymous, I have had a few people guess it was me a…
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Tuesday Morning Job Security Check 3
Since we aren't too far removed from the fireworks of July 4th, I thought I would share one more fireworks explosion. This guy made it away with his life...barely. NEVER stick your head directly over the top of a firework. That is like staring down the b…
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New Haven 20 – Follow up
This is follow up to my earlier post "Court rules for white firefighters over promotions".
If you feel like it you can read the 93 page ruling that is sure to have some pretty thick legal mumbo jumbo in it here riccvsdestefano
I have learned a lot abou…
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Whoyagot?
Bing is the newest competition for google. Not that there have been many competitors for google, they more or less crushed the other search engines on the market at the time of their arrival. Remember lycos and infoseek, when aol, netscape, and one oth…
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Court rules for white firefighters over promotions
I have only followed this story a little bit and it was given more publicity once Sonia Sotomayor was plucked for the high court.
The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their ra…
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Monday Morning Shoutout – Paramedic-ing Blog
This weeks monday morning shoutout goes to a new blog (much like this one). The Paramedic-ing Blog is new and he knows it. He makes no bones about being the new guy on the block. The blog is written by a medic who works for a fire department in Californi…
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Give a Shoutout
Hey all you webmasters out there. The Fire Critic is looking for shoutouts, or at least a mention on your site. We are running a grassroots marketing effort here at The Fire Critic Headquarters and we need all the help we can get. We believe that we have…
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2nd Class Citizens
Morale...it is all about morale. Firefighters usually don't have a huge audience when it comes to complaining about working conditions or pay and benefits. Occasionally we get all together and stage a public demonstration in order to have the media help …
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Cardiac Arrest only kills 300,000 per year?
Michael Jackson reportedly died of cardiac arrest. I was watching some of the news following his death and one of the channels reported that cardiac arrest only kills around 300,000 each year in the U.S. They followed it up with the fact that there is on…
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