A top French court ruled Wednesday against upgrading the charges against three firefighters accused of having sex with a teenage girl from sexual assault to rape, the latest decision in a case that helped fuel efforts to set a legal age of sexual consent in France.
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The manufacturers are accused of concealing the fact that their firefighting foam products contained the hazardous chemicals for decades.
Read moreA Black woman working as an Omaha firefighter filed a lawsuit against the city after she said she faced verbal abuse from coworkers and found her gear hung from a station flagpole in a way that simulated “a public hanging or lynching.” She said she had to take a leave of absence after the city did nothing.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit ruled against a firefighter seeking records relating to the Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013, which killed 19 firefighters in Arizona. The court ruled that even if the U.S. Department of Agriculture once held the records the firefighter seeks, there is no question that the department’s search for them was adequate.
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Three American crew members were killed Thursday when a C-130 Hercules water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in southeastern Australia, officials said.
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Two volunteer firefighters died Thursday battling wildfires ravaging Australia’s most populous state, bringing the wildfire death toll to at least eight, as authorities braced for temperatures to soar in New South Wales over the weekend.
Read moreTwenty-four firefighters sued Cleveland, Ohio, claiming its fire captain promotional exam discriminates against white people in favor of blacks, in Cuyahoga County Court.
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New Mexico’s Environment Department and attorney general filed an injunction asking that the U.S. Air Force be compelled to quickly clean up contamination from toxic firefighting foam that lingers in the ground around Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases.
Read moreYou need to make a deal, a state appeals court told Houston on Thursday, ordering the city to mediation with a firefighters union fighting for voter-approved pay raises held up in litigation.
Read moreA Texas judge on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a voter-approved measure to raise Houston firefighters’ pay, potentially heading off mass layoffs the mayor said were necessary to fund the mandate.
Read moreThe widow of a firefighter claims the failure of Scott Technologies Personal Alert Safety System cost her husband his life and nearly killed a second one, in Bexar County Court.
Read moreHouston firefighters’ wallets just got a little fatter, after a Texas judge on Tuesday denied the city’s request to stay a voter-approved amendment requiring firefighters to be paid as much as police.
Read moreThe Houston Police Department won’t have the manpower to investigate home burglaries and car wrecks if the cash-strapped city is forced to lay off hundreds of officers to help finance a voter-approved pay raise for firefighters, the police chief testified Friday.
Read moreIn the first decision of its new term, the Supreme Court agreed Tuesday with two Arizona firefighters who argued that a federal age-discrimination law applies to state and local government entities with less than 20 employees.
Read moreThree dozen firefighters who responded to the Aliso Canyon methane blowout near Los Angeles — the largest gas leak in U.S. history — sued Southern California Gas and Sempra Energy in superior court Monday, accusing them of knowingly exposing them to carcinogenic chemicals, negligence, fraudulent concealment, and other charges.
Read moreThe Minnesota Court of Appeals found Monday that the city of Brainerd violated labor rules when it laid off all full-time firefighters to dissolve their union amid collective bargaining.
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