Staten Island firefighters suing New York City for millions
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
- Four Staten Island firefighters are suing New York City and the FDNY after they were hurt responding to a call in February 2023. CBS New York's Natalie Duddridge reports.
This is a joke, the 1 fire in Staten Island every year
I love when people make a comment about a profession they know absolutely nothing about.
What's the joke?
@@tombattino3319he’s probably a firefighter. I am, and there is a running joke about the “Eternal fireless Staten Island”
Written in “War Years” by 31 Truck Captain Bob Farrell.
So the department places units out of service for training and medical evaluations. So why do they not have a few units to float everyday to fill in to ensure coverage? Your not paying people overtime to get their medical exams done like other places do. So take the savings you get by doing it all on duty and float a few units around on overtime.
The FDNY could follow suit as other large FD do such as Chicago Houston
I hope they win. The money is there it’s just being spent irresponsibly.
He did right to sue thats ridiculous
I'd rather see them get the money 💰 then the migrants
The city isn't broke. If I got $100 dollars for every time my employer cried broke, I'd be retired. We went five years w/o a contract because they were broke. Wouldn't you know when the IAFF got involved and we sued the city, money magically appeared and got everything we asked for. Lawsuits early and often!
I don't live in NY but I would love to get some $$ from them.
Suing because the first due engine was OOS for medical is ridiculous. Not a staffing problem at all.
It’s really not but OK
This is quite objectively a staffing issue. They said pretty plainly they did not have manpower on scene to make a rescue at the time of the multiple maydays. This was directly a result of the nearby house being without coverage due to the duty crew being sent downtown for medical exams.
Staffing and manpower are intertwined with each other. COme on.
sure is they could still staff another engine company to cover the area. especially Staten Island where fire resources are already limited compared to the other bough's
That's not the city's isue its standard practice to take stations offline for maintenance and training etc the problem is that American firefighters are to aggressive in their tactics if you look at Europe you will see that once everyone is out a defensive tactic is used saving the building isn't worth killing yourself for let it burn saving lives is the only time you should risk your life not for a structure
That isn't entirely true what you have said. Our job is to protect both lives and property (where possible). Many times, even if I building is confirmed empty you still have to conduct interior firefighting anyway. If you simply try to fight it defensively from the outside, you will often achieve nothing more than pushing the fire further back through the building.
Firefighters in countries such as France and Italy have to be some of the most aggressive firefighters I've ever witnessed.
Firefighting in general requires you to be at least a little aggressive
Sincerely
A UK firefighter
Also not the issue. City is cutting back budgets, closing houses due to no staffing and or thinking they are saving money
How do you do that with a 30 story building connected to other buldings?
@@professorminstrels6460 but you have also take into account that most european houses have a greater structural Integrity than most american houses, since most european houses have several solid stone walls to carry the weight which means most fires won´t cause the house to collapse. That means it´s not as risky to be aggressive in here as in the US, since US made houses often have less weight carrying structures which in turn significally increases the chances to collapse in the case of a fire and thereby trap a firefighter who´s inside
City officials love to say they "support" firefighters until it's time to pay them or do anything that actually supports them a city near me is going through it right now
I hope they win.Ny doesn't take care of their firefighters!!
Seriously.. FDNY is short staffed ? Doubt it
That plus cuts in employment to make up for other city budgets are what’s creating the problem
They’re only suing the innocent taxpayers for personal gain.
Right 🙄
Maybe you shouldn't speak when you don't know what your talking about.
@@michaelperkins739 Well Mr know it all who's pockets do you think that money is going to come out of then ?
@@michaelperkins739 Suing the city is suing the taxpayers DUH. Wake up!
The taxpayers keep voting for incompetent politicians that create these policies. So yes, the taxpayers deserve it
City is broke, suing broke city?
100 billions budget
Lie detector determined……
City isn't broke, poor decisions made if anything.
yea New York City is "broke".....yup. common sense is something you should pray for