``I've had more than 100 phone calls from firefighters around the county who are appalled at this report,'' Fernandez said. ``We lost 400 colleagues in New York. This is our way of expressing sympathy.''
This is the real story - people aren't going to put up with this kind of garbage anymore. They still has the right to dissent; but they don't have the right of a guaranteed or indulgent audience...
I wonder if the union will be backing them when they file their grievance.