NY settles lawsuit over volunteer firefighter use

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The settlement guarantees that paid fire crews maintain four men on each engine that goes out on a call for the next five years

 

LONG BEACH, N.Y. — Long Beach officials and the city’s paid firefighters have reached a settlement to avoid layoffs in order to move forward with a restructuring plan that includes paid paramedics and volunteers.

The Long Beach Professional Firefighters union, representing the paid firefighters, agreed to drop two of its lawsuits against the city, which planned to overhaul the fire department, in exchange for granting job protection for the existing 18 paid firefighters.

 

 

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