FortWayneFirefighters124

Representing 600+ firefighters & EMS providers across the city & county, our mission is to aggressively defend lives, property, and promote awareness.

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🔥 Who Will Be Next?
Your firefighters run toward danger every day, fires, toxic smoke, carcinogens, knowing the risks to their health. Yet the City of Fort Wayne and Chief Lahey continually choose politics over accountability.

These firefighters’ stories are just a few examples of how this administration has failed.
• Denied duty-related injuries
• Denied duty-related illnesses
• Delayed treatment
• Families forced into financial and emotional turmoil.

This isn’t leadership. This is abandonment.

👉 Fort Wayne deserves better. Your firefighters deserve better.

It’s time for accountability. It’s time for change.

#firelahey #fortwayne #firefighters #publicsafety #fortwaynedeservesbetter

@foxnews @cnnbrk @newsmax @abc @news @msnbc @wane15 @abc21wpta @fox55fortwayne @khblakeslee @indystar @fox59 @93wibc

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💔 Abandoned by the City He Served
After his diagnosis, the city’s doctor recommended that he see a nationally recognized expert in firefighter cancers, Dr. Gangat at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.

But here’s the cruel reality:
• The City refused to cover this referral.
• The firefighter and his family paid for the trip and treatment out of their own pocket.
• The City continues to deny his case despite presumptive cancer protections in Indiana law.

This is not just neglect, it is a betrayal of a firefighter who put his health on the line for our community.

#firelahey #fortwaynedeservesbetter #fortwayne #firefighters #publicsafety

@foxnews @cnnbrk @newsmax @abc @news @msnbc @wane15 @abc21wpta @fox55fortwayne @khblakeslee @indystar @fox59 @93wibc

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🔥 We don’t ask for special treatment.

We simply ask the city to recognize what it refuses to see. A firefighter suffered an acute cardiac event in a burning building. His cardiologist made it clear, this was sudden, severe, and duty related.

Yet the city still denies it. We will not stop telling this story until they do.

#firelahey #fortwayne #firefighters #publicsafety #fortwaynedeservesbetter @foxnews @cnnbrk @newsmax @abc @news @msnbc @wane15 @abc21wpta @fox55fortwayne @khblakeslee @indystar @fox59 @93wibc

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📷 City, firefighters both deserve better leadership
Full article in comments below.
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#cnn #msnbc #FoxNews

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This firefighter dedicated his career to protecting the people of Fort Wayne. After 35 years of service, he was diagnosed with polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer.

Indiana state law recognizes presumptive occupational cancers for firefighters. That means if a firefighter is diagnosed with certain cancers, the law presumes it is job related. But instead of honoring the law, the City of Fort Wayne has denied his claim, leaving him to fight for his life without the protections he earned.

Our firefighters should not have to battle City Hall on top of battling cancer.
#firelahey #fortwaynedeservesbetter

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Firefighters deserve better leadership. https://t.co/S5tAJGVgZk

#FoxNews #cnn #msnbc

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[Todd German @ToddGermanMBC]

One year ago today I went into cardiac arrest.

Pictured here are some of the angels among us who saved my life.

I will be eternally grateful to: my wife, @FortWayneFire, @TRAAEMS, and the doctors & nurses @lutheranhosp

#thebeatgoeson

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"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."

Abraham Lincoln

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Two weeks until the big showdown between Fort Wayne 👮🏽‍♀️👮🏽‍♂️ &👨‍🚒👩‍🚒 in Goalball. Watch this video to see what the sport is about. Mark the calendar for the 23rd to come and support these great organizations! https://t.co/sNwYJVBO1Z Link @FortWaynePolice @FortWayneFire @TurnstoneCenter

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Fort Wayne, Indiana #firefighters in the house at #MDFIREOPS101 @jimmyjam1967 @FortWayneFire

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Motorcycle club for firefighters, medics raising funds for young burn victims https://t.co/qYfuVx3ucT

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Every Fort Wayne firefighter completes a three-year program known as the Journeyman Apprenticeship Training Program. This program is designed to ensure that firefighters are competent in a multitude of... https://t.co/sulyykUYC1

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The FWFD retiree breakfast is held the second Thursday of every month at our union hall. Retirees start arriving at 0700 and the food is served at 0800. The day after the 20 Year Club, there’s always a great... https://t.co/AoWIBSE0qF

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FWFD paramedics and advanced EMTs practice ventilation and airway management on premature infant mannikins as part of an in-service training this week. Presentations were given by Jenny Culler RN, April Barcalow... https://t.co/rjTX20OQjp

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Retiree Jeff Meyer, badge #355, passed away April 22nd after a long battle with cancer. He was 59 years young. Jeff served our Department from September 3rd, 1985 - September 4th, 2009. There are currently no... https://t.co/8ft7Q2KkfQ