Baltimore reinstates Lieutenant

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City fire commander reinstated

By Justin Fenton

September 27, 2008

A Baltimore fire commander, who was dismissed after being deemed "negligent" and "incompetent" in his role at a live-burn training exercise in which a 29-year-old recruit died last year, will be reinstated and likely promoted after authorities determined that his termination was not proper.

Link to full article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal...0,5120162.story

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City fire commander reinstated

By Justin Fenton

September 27, 2008

A Baltimore fire commander, who was dismissed after being deemed "negligent" and "incompetent" in his role at a live-burn training exercise in which a 29-year-old recruit died last year, will be reinstated and likely promoted after authorities determined that his termination was not proper.

Link to full article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal...0,5120162.story

For those of you who work in either the public or private sector, this is the perfect reason why you should work unionized. if he were non-union, he'd been permenantly gone with no recourse. At least he got his day in court. Unions are like an insurance policy; you hope you never need it, but if you do its there.

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Whatever punishment or hardship he went through following this is nothing compared to what he has to live with everyday.