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  • 'Unfireable' female firefighter to get unprecedented seventh chance to pass FDNY physical test

    12/27/2015 6:32:37 PM PST · by QT3.14 · 33 replies
    Daily Mail (UK) ^ | December 27, 2015 | Hannah Parry
    A female firefighter who has repeatedly failed the fitness test is being given an unprecedented seventh try. Wendy Tapia, 34, was allowed to conditionally graduate from the FDNY's Randall's Island training academy in May 2013 - despite failing the required running test, New York Post reports. Typically firefighters who fail the exam at the end of academy training don't graduate and are forced to re-take the entire course in the next academy class. But Tapia, blaming a foot injury for her failure, was allowed to take it again not once, but five more times over the next six months.