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FDNY'S Medics Burned in Bid to Attend Fire Academy
Updated: 09-26-2005 03:52:09 PM
ANGELA MONTEFINISE
Courtesy of The New York Post
A "severe staffing crisis" in the Fire Department's EMT division has cost a group of medics their promotions to the Fire Academy, according to their union - and they are not happy about it.
A group of 26 EMTs were slated to start at the academy tomorrow, but received word from their union Friday night that their promotions had gone up in smoke.
"We got a call out of the blue saying, 'Sorry, but you're not going to start at the academy after all,' " said one furious EMT, who has been waiting for 13 years to become a firefighter.
"This is my dream. I took the test. I took the physical. I resigned as an EMT. And now I have to go back?"
Bob Ungar, a representative of District Council 37's Local 2507 Uniformed EMTs and Paramedics Union, said the pending closing of St. Mary's Hospital in Brooklyn - coupled with a huge number of EMTs being promoted to the academy - has caused a "severe shortage" of "men on the street."
"This is a tough thing, but the department planned to promote too many people," he said.
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Updated: 09-26-2005 03:52:09 PM
ANGELA MONTEFINISE
Courtesy of The New York Post
A "severe staffing crisis" in the Fire Department's EMT division has cost a group of medics their promotions to the Fire Academy, according to their union - and they are not happy about it.
A group of 26 EMTs were slated to start at the academy tomorrow, but received word from their union Friday night that their promotions had gone up in smoke.
"We got a call out of the blue saying, 'Sorry, but you're not going to start at the academy after all,' " said one furious EMT, who has been waiting for 13 years to become a firefighter.
"This is my dream. I took the test. I took the physical. I resigned as an EMT. And now I have to go back?"
Bob Ungar, a representative of District Council 37's Local 2507 Uniformed EMTs and Paramedics Union, said the pending closing of St. Mary's Hospital in Brooklyn - coupled with a huge number of EMTs being promoted to the academy - has caused a "severe shortage" of "men on the street."
"This is a tough thing, but the department planned to promote too many people," he said.
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