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May 24, 2013
NY 1 - Steve Cassidy Talks Response Time & Elections on NY1's Road to City Hall

NY 1 - UFA Radio Ad Blasts Response Time Claims

970 AM Radio - Cassidy's Interview on Sliwa Show: FDNY Response Times


May 23, 2013
UFANYC.org - Steve Cassidy on NY1 TV Tonight

UFANYC.org - Listen to UFA Radio Commercial - Cassano Lied to the City Council

UFANYC.org - N.Y.C Firefighter Leaders Say City’s Response Times “Untrue”

NY Daily News - FDNY Underreports Emergency Response Times: Firefighters Union

SI Advance - Firefighters Union Says It Has Data Showing Fdny Response Times on Staten Island, Citywide are 'A Lie'

7 Online - FDNY Commissioner Denies False Response Times

CBS 2 - Union Claims FDNY is Underreporting Response Times to Close More Fire Houses

NY Post - Get the Rack

Western Queens Gazette - New Fire App Rates Building Blaze Risk


May 22, 2013
Associated Press - More Anti-Terror $$ to New York

NY Daily News - City Gets Boost in Federal Counterterrorism and Disaster Preparedness Funds to $174.3 Million


May 21, 2013
Chief Leader - Overturn Finding that Firefighter Hiring was Intentionally Biased

Chief Leader - Graduation Produces 285 Firefighters

Chief Leader - Appeals Court: City Acted Improperly in Ending ITHP Benefit

Chief Leader - FDNY Acts to Discourage Hazing of New Recruits

Chief Leader - Cassano Steps Carefully at FDNY Budget Hearing

Chief Leader - Streamline City Fire Inspections to Prioritize Likeliest Buildings

Chief Leader - Dets., NYPD Captains and Fire Marshals All Backing Vallone


May 20, 2013
NY Daily News - Man Falls Out of Broadway Theater Window, Landing on Marquee

Chief Leader - Editorial: An Unsettled Fire Issue


May 18, 2013
NY Daily News - FDNY Graduates Most Diverse Class of Probies Ever

The Wall Street Journal - Benefit for City's Bravest

NY 1 - FDNY Graduates First Round of Probies in Five Years

SI Advance - FDNY Graduates 285 'Probies' from Fire Academy -- First New Class Since 2008


May 17, 2013
NY 1 - FDNY Begins Zero Tolerance Hazing Policy

NY 1 - Brooklyn Fire Engine Company Celebrates 100 Years of Fighting Flames

SI Advance - Editorial:The Firehouse 'Dance': City Proposes Eliminating Fire Companies Once Again

Newsday - More Names Added to 9/11 Wall in Nesconset


May 16, 2013
NY Post - ‘Judge & Jury’ Fury

NY Daily News - FDNY Commissioner Cassano Says to Ban Hazing at All Firehouses

WNYC - FDNY Tries Data-Driven Approach

NY 1 - Sound the Alarm: Advocate for Deaf Pressures City to Repair Fire Alarm Boxes


May 15, 2013
NY Daily News - Bloomberg's Proposal to Close 20 Fire Companies 'Has to Stop': Councilman

NY Daily News - Federal Court Overturns Ruling that FDNY Intentionally Discriminated Against Minority Applicants

NY Post - Court Burns Judge, Nixes FDNY ‘Bias’

NY Times - Appeals Court Says Judge Went Too Far in Forcing Fire Dept. to Revamp Its Hiring

Chief Leader - Limits Judge’s ControlAppeals Court Reverses Part of Fire-Test Ruling

Associated Press - NY Appeals Court Approves of FDNY Hiring Oversight

NY 1 - Sound the Alarm: Roughly One-Third of City's Fire Alarm Boxes Cannot Be Used

The Wall Street Journal - Ruling in Fire Department Minorities Case Favors City

SI Advance - Council Members Again Do the Traditional Budget Dance Over Fire Company Closures on Staten Island, Across NYC

NY Post - Editorial: All Smoke, No Fire

NY Daily News - Editorial: Nicholas Garaufis’s Bias Against Fire Department is Hosed by Appeals Court

Newsday - Editorial: Nicholas Garaufis' Bias Against Fire Department is Hosed by Appeals Court


May 14, 2013
Chief Leader - City Tells Feds It’s Giving Back Pay to Forced-Out Captain


May 13, 2013
CBS 2 - Boy, 5, Rescued from Bronx River

SI Advance - Heroes to get a Five-Star Welcome from Staten Islanders on Saturday


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