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Actually, it appears that he was fired in favor of illegals.
Not everyone who works for the fire department fights fires. He'd had a desk job and he was doing his job.
He didn't have a desk job. He was a firefighter on light duty who was unable to prove himself fit to perform the job in a reasonable time frame and was released. There are other people working for the FD... they are civilian employees hired at much lower pay rates to perform those functions.
Those asking why he wasn't placed on a disability pension: that may actually hurt his chances of earning a livable wage in the future. He would be barred from a lot of activities if he were put out on disability, as opposed to just not being allowed to be a firefighter.
He was a recruit that didn't make it out of the academy. Let's not confuse this person with a Firefighter that suffered a heartatack while fighting a dwelling fire or rescue or another life or death situation that Firefighters deal with every day.
You have a link that indicates he was on desk duty his entire career? OP's link does not make that case.
Cutting budgets to pay for a wave of migrants triggered by Biden's EO is the important point.
^^ He was not replaced. He was fired/laid off. So one can say he was replaced by some migrants in using the money. He may have been on light duty, but what have the migrants do?
Exactly. He'd had a heart attack 5 years ago and never was cleared for duty. People suffering one heart attack are likely to have another. It's a sad story, but his death is no one's fault and was caused by nothing other than bad luck.
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The city will only allow you to be strung along on light duty for so long before it's obvious that you can't perform the tasks for which you were hired.
Especially in the face of across-the-board budget cuts. Someone on light duty in the chaplain's office is going to be cut before an active firefighter.
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He didn't have a desk job. He was a firefighter on light duty who was unable to prove himself fit to perform the job in a reasonable time frame and was released. There are other people working for the FD... they are civilian employees hired at much lower pay rates to perform those functions.
From the link in the OP:
Floyd was one of about 10 fire department employees who had been on “long-term duty” — either injured on the job and given office work or out sick for an extended period — and fired weeks before Christmas, FDNY sources told The Post.
Floyd, a veteran who served three tours in the Middle East with the Marines, had been among those working a desk job — toiling in the fire department chaplain’s office — because he had suffered another heart attack in 2019 while he was in the Fire Academy.
In the chaplain’s office, the firefighter, who was on modified duty, helped arrange the funerals of fallen FDNY members.
So yes, he did have a desk job.
Also from the link in the OP:
Derek Floyd, 36, suffered cardiac arrest and passed away April 15, four months after the city gave him the boot as part of a larger effort to pare staff and pay for housing and services for the tens of thousands of migrants flooding the Big Apple.
Floyd’s firing was part of City Hall’s plan to slash the FDNY budget by $74 million by the end of 2025 to make way for migrant spending.
He was cut so that NYC would have the money to support illegals and he was simply low hanging fruit. If it weren't for the illegals and NYC putting them above citizens, then he'd probably would have had that job up until he'd died.
Many are suffering from this invasion. Deport these invaders and lock up this treasonous admin. A 10 year minimum prison sentence for these politicians would do wonders for foreign invasion numbers.
Also arrest sanctuary city mayors and governors immediately. The invaders are just pawns. We need to go after the traitors.
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