[matt04]

IIRC, FDNY basically did diversity hiring at one for some reason and passed several candidates who had failed several of the tests that were required to be passed. In a emergency, if the had to make a fire-fighter down/trapped type rescue they physically couldn’t or something like that, but were still cleared to enter burning buildings.

[hanamizu]

FDNY basically did diversity hiring

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Remember after 9/11 when 3 or 4 FDNY firefighters raised a flag over the rubble? And when there was a push to commemorate it, it was decided to replace the “undiverse” firefighters who actually did it with more politically correct grouping—a white, a black, a hispanic and a woman.