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The Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court has held that a fire captain cannot recover for injuries he sustained that he claims were due to the incompetence of a probationary firefighter. The lawsuit was brought by Captain Robert Eckert of the Camden Fire Department.

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A Camden fire captain who was seriously injured at a fire last year has filed suit against the city claiming the fire chief’s decision to assign him two probationary firefighters was responsible for his injuries. Captain Robert Eckert was injured January 31, 2018 when he was struck in the head by a hose coupling.

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A Camden firefighter who claimed to be disabled has been found guilty of second-degree theft by deception by a Camden County jury. Shane B. Streater claimed that job related back and neck injuries prevented him from continuing to work as a firefighter in Camden.

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Two Hispanic firefighters from Camden have been awarded $596,000 by a New Jersey jury for discrimination. Firefighters Andres Nieves, 48, and Samuel Munoz, 34, claim they were subjected to a hostile work environment and they were unfairly passed over for ...

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Camden Firefighters, IAFF Local 788 suffered a setback today when a New Jersey Appellate Division Court vacated an interest arbitration ruling that granted them modest pay raises in four of the five years covered by the award. The problem: the ...

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On Friday, a Camden, New Jersey fire captain pled guilty to larceny charges for having stolen an undetermined amount of “house funds” that belonged to firefighters. Captain John Merklein was placed on probation as part of a plea agreement that ...

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