A group of white New Haven firefighters who won a discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court are seeking back pay, damages and legal fees.
Amid blaring bagpipes, the crowd erupted with even louder cheers, whistles and shouts when firefighters entered a high school auditorium to receive their promotional badges after a 5-year legal battle that ended with a U.S. Supreme Court victory.
The 14 Connecticut firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case in a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court have had their promotions approved by New Haven's Board of Fire Commissioners.
A group of black Connecticut firefighters hopes to block promotions for white firefighters who won a discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Two veteran firefighters who died trying to save the lives of dozens trapped in the largest wildfire in Los Angeles County history were remembered as heroes Saturday in a memorial service at a sun-dappled Dodger Stadium attended by Vice President Joe Biden and others.
A firefighters union says a New York City engine company had to close its firehouse for 30 minutes to bathe a circus elephant on city orders.
Firefighters report some progress against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles, but warned that this one might be just a preview of even greater dangers ahead.
The body of fallen firefighter Capt. Tedmund Hall is being escorted through Los Angeles to a mortuary in Victorville.
Kujo, a 120-pound Presa Canario, is little the worse for wear after firefighters hauled him out of a 30-foot-deep abandoned well where he could have drowned during a rainstorm. “I was nervous,” admitted rescuer Travis Lambert. “He’s a big dog.”
More than 5,000 firefighters lined several city blocks in Buffalo and saluted with white-gloved hands as the flag-draped casket of a fellow firefighter arrived at a downtown cathedral. The sad scene played out twice Friday on a day of mourning.
The brother-in-law of a man convicted of setting a Southern California wildfire that killed five firefighters has surrendered to police in a jury tampering case.
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee aren't letting go of the issue involving white firefighters from Connecticut who last month won a reverse discrimination case at the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has defended her ruling against white firefighters who accused the New Haven, Conn., government of engaging in reverse discrimination against them.
Foes of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor celebrated the high court's reversal of her decision in a reverse discrimination case.
The Supreme Court ruling in favor of white New Haven firefighters who said they were victims of reverse discrimination will probably leave employers confused, civil rights advocates and labor attorneys say.
Spinning a Supreme Court decision in its favor, the White House said Monday that the justices' reversal of a ruling that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge proves that she follows judicial precedent.
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.
A convicted arsonist was sentenced to death Friday for setting a Southern California wildfire that killed five federal firefighters struggling to defend a rural home from raging, wind-driven flames.
When an important reverse discrimination case came before federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor last year, she and two other judges issued an unusually brief decision that went against white firefighters.
Authorities in Texas say six firefighters in San Antonio have been hospitalized after being exposed to chlorine gas while battling a blaze at a cemetery.
A divided Supreme Court took up its first examination of race in the Obama era Wednesday, wrestling with claims of job discrimination by white firefighters in a case that could force changes in employment practices nationwide.
In an April 19 story about a lawsuit accusing the city of New Haven of violating the rights of white firefighters by discarding a promotion test because no blacks would have been promoted, The Associated Press erroneously reported one of the credentials of psychologists who filed a Supreme Court brief supporting the defendants. They are elected fellows of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, not officers of the organization, which isn't involved in the suit.
Houston fire officials say they're investigating the deaths of two firefighters who died when they went inside a burning home after neighbors told them no one was inside.
A jury recommended the death penalty Wednesday for a man convicted of murdering five federal firefighters who were overrun by one of several wildfires he ignited in Southern California in 2006. Jurors took less than a day to decide that Raymond Lee Oyler deserved to die. Prosecutors cited the horrific pain the fire crew suffered and the terror the auto mechanic's fires caused in rural areas of Riverside County.
Vice President Joe Biden said Monday the Obama administration is committed to getting firefighters the equipment, training and additional staffing they need to do their jobs.
"The world's oldest lightbulb is still burning bright after 109 years."
The Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service crew said they were called to England's Southampton General Hospital Tuesday morning to use the 4 1/2-inch grinder to cut through the pipe without damaging the man's sex organ, The Sun reported Thursday.
I think sometimes people forget that there are good unions, and good reasons for unions.
Pakistan's Taliban have said they carried out the suicide bombing which killed 43 people in the commercial capital, Karachi, on Monday. A spokesman threatened to carry out more such attacks in the coming days.
Thousands of people in Pakistan have attended funerals in the city of Karachi, a day after a suicide bomb that claimed the lives of 43 people. Firefighters are still extinguishing flames following rioting after the attack on a Shia Muslim march.
KARACHI: A suicide bomber on Monday targeted Pakistan's largest procession of Shiite Muslims on their holiest day, killing at least 30 people and wounding dozens more in defiance of a major security crackdown.
Firefighter Jim Ryan, who worked at Ground Zero on 9/11 and for three months afterward, died of pancreatic cancer on Christmas Day. Ryan, 48, wanted to go to D.C. last month to campaign for legislation compensating those who got ill from working at the site.
Christmas is alive and well in Upstate NY. Last week a family that had just moved to NY from VA lost their new home and possessions to fire. Now, thanks to the efforts of local firefighters, they have a new house, a generous donation, and Christmas presents for the whole family.
BOSTON -- A veteran Boston firefighter filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the City of Boston and two of its officers.
Police officers rescued babies from a burning apartment building early Saturday.
Let's use logic on this subject. The target chosen was civilian. Therefore, it should be tried in civilian courts. It worked out fine from the 1993 bombing of the WTC. The USS Cole is another matter. That was a military target. Military court.
Boston Fire Department supervisors made a series of flawed tactical decisions at the scene of a 2007 West Roxbury restaurant blaze, split-second actions that propelled a massive fireball through the building and led to the deaths of two firefighters, according to a newly released …
Southern California's hot, dry climate is a perfect support system for fires, so it is understandable that the state spares no expense when it comes to fighting them.
"A DOG had to be rescued by firefighters in St Neots after it got its head stuck in a tumble dryer vent in a brick wall" on Tuesday, November 3, 2009.
A huge fire at an Indian oil depot that killed at least six people and injured 150 is allowed to burn out as firefighters have little hope of dousing it, officials said.
A man being served an eviction notice by a deputy from the Constable's Office set his house on fire and then shot at firefighters who responded to the scene, according to a spokesman for the NOPD.
Federal authorities charged two former Boston firefighters yesterday with faking career-ending injuries and charged a Fire Department clerk with lying under oath, the first arrests in an ongoing investigation of pension abuse in the Boston Fire Department.
Six firefighters died early Sunday after they were trapped in a smoke-filled elevator while trying to reach a fire in a building in India's financial capital, an official said.
Tots saved at flooded day care 1:00 Firefighters rescue nine small children and two adults from day care after flash flooding in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Burning material that landed on three firefighters added excitement to a "sprinker demonstration."
When Fire Rescue heads out on a call, they are doing their best to protect and serve, but seven firefighters were involved in an incident this past August that one says he is deeply ashamed and embarrassed by.
BOSTON -- More than 100 Bay State firefighters who were laid off during budget cuts will get their jobs back, Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday.
Sunday marked the 28th annual National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Md., and local firefighters said that they honor those who have died by learning from their mistakes to help protect themselves and their fellow firefighters.
Two Osceola County firefighters are recovering tonight after being burned while cooking dinner on a grill at their station, officials said.
A St. Petersburg Fire Rescue paramedic truck accidentally ran over the person they were sent to help on Thursday afternoon, according to police.