A White River Township firefighter is suing the department, charging that administrators unfairly restricted his job duties and violated his rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Fire Prevention Chief Eric Brown filed suit in U.S. District Court last week. Brown, who has a temporal lobe seizure disorder, is asking for restoration of lost pay...Read More
TRENTON — Firefighters and first responders suffering from job-related stress would have access to a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week hotline under a bill approved by an Assembly panel recently. The bill calls for the state Division of Fire Safety, with the help of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s Behavioral Health Care department, to...Read More
We tend to look at the people who run into buildings when the rest of us are running out of them as mythic beings. I know that I do. I have a cousin, long retired, who was a Chicago firefighter for decades. Every holiday we would hear of his exploits, with one story sure to...Read More
