258 Search results for "fire department"

  A Parks Department worker who saved four people from a fire in Brooklyn has succumbed to his injuries. James Frye, 47, was staying with his friend Adrienne Mitchell while his apartment was being renovated when a fire broke out on June 2. 

Six Cleveland Police officers were indicted Friday on charges related to a car chase that resulted in 137 bullets being fired into a car with 2 unarmed suspects in it. 

On December 10, more than two dozen police officers from Miami Dade County fired 377 rounds into a blue Volve, killing two unarmed men. The car was wedged between a light pole and a tree. The two men inside survived the first 50 rounds of gunfire from cops according to witnesses who said they could […]

The family of a North Chicago man who was beat to death by a policeman was told the officer was fired for the incident. But that officer was actually let go for other reasons –like living outside of the city’s limits. 

  A group of black firefighters that sued New York City for discrimination has been awarded millions for the incidents. The ruling means that minority fire department applicants will be eligible to receive back pay totaling $98 million. 

The family of an elderly man who died of a heart attack after being ignored by firefighters in front of a Washington D.C. fire station is demanding that the department fire everyone involved. The family of Medric Mills called for the firing of firefighters, dispatchers and supervisors associated with the Jan. 25 incident. 

Despite being approved by the Illinois prison director’s chief of staff for the position, a former gang member has been fired from a six-figure position with the Illinois Department of Corrections. Xadrian McCravan was hired on June 28, 2013.  The previous day, IDOC Chief of Operations Joseph Yurkovich checked a box on a review form […]

An Orange County firefighter was suspended for 12 hours after leaving a city-owned ax with a confederate flag at the scene of a house fire. Assistant Fire Chief Jeff Holton’s son admitted to painting the flag on the ax, which was left at a black man’s residence after firefighters extinguishing flames from his burning home. 

A former top executive for British Petroleum says she was fired from the company after being warned about her hairstyle and attire. Melphine Evans sued BP West Coast Products, BP North America and nine people in Orange County Superior Court. Evans, who served as the company’s vice president of North America’s Western region for nearly […]

A Los Angeles civil court jury has awarded $1.1 million to a black firefighter who said he was racially discriminated against for almost 30 years. Jabari S. Jumaane claims he endured racial bias, harassment and retaliation while working for the Los Angeles Fire Department. 

The Dallas police officer who shot a mentally ill man has been fired. Officer Cardan Spencer wrote that he shot Bobby Gerald Bennett last week after he lunged at him and another officer with a knife. A video captured by a neighbor’s surveillance camera shows that Bennett did not lung or move in the direction of the officers at all.

Dallas, TX 911 operator April Sims lost her job after her lengthy, racist Facebook rants were sent to a local news station: “‘Black people are outrageous! They are more like animals, they never know how to act, just loud [expletive] Always causing problems.”