FDNY staffing down, overtime up
Department is short more than 500 members, chief says
PS 229’s special guests 2
Members of the New York Fire Department are taking care of business — and working overtime, in large part because a federal judge has frozen hiring over concerns that the city discriminates against minority applicants. No one has been able to get the advertised “great jobs” and “great benefits” for two years.
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