A New York City firefighter has died of a heart attack months after being laid off due to the city’s cost-cutting measures to pay for the ongoing migrant crisis.
Derek Floyd, 36, reportedly suffered cardiac arrest and died earlier this month, which came four months after “the city gave him the boot as part of a larger effort to pare down staff and pay for housing and services for the tens of thousands of migrants flooding the Big Apple,” according to the New York Post.
Sources with the FDNY said that Floyd and 10 other firefighters received a pink slip this past Christmas after being on “long term duty,” meaning they had either suffered an injury on the job and had been given
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