New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, defended the firing of a 36-year-old FDNY firefighter who died of a heart attack last month, leaving his family in a difficult financial position.
“Derek Floyd, 36, suffered cardiac arrest and passed away April 15, four months after the city gave him the boot as part of a larger effort to pare staff and pay for housing and services for the tens of thousands of migrants flooding the Big Apple,” the New York Post previously reported.
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Adams said keeping Floyd, who had been on “long-term duty” after a prior heart attack while enrolled at the Fire Academy, would have meant misspending
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