Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Mayor Edward Koch's aides estimated that firms lost about $100 million each day. The walkout cost the city about $3 million a day in lost sales taxes and other revenue, as well as overtime pay for police and firemen. Some of that loss, however, will be offset by the daily savings of $2 million from not operating the transit system and by the Taylor Law penalties...
Koch denounced the settlement as too costly. "The city won the battle in the streets," he said. "The M.T.A. lost it at the bargaining table." He fears that the municipal unions-firemen, police, sanitation men and teachers-will make even greater demands of the hard-pressed city when they begin contract negotiations in June. By his feisty leadership, Koch rallied the public behind him during the transit strike. He will need that support in the labor battles ahead...
Everything was back to normal ten minutes after the alarm sounded, Dougherty said. Personnel had smoked in the lounge for three years without incident, he added. Dougherty said the firemen, who cleaned and readjusted the detector for higher smoke tolerance, told him the device malfunctioned...
...Firemen may have exacerbated the problem by hosing the pools, causing more of the liquid to rise into the sky, sources on the scene said...
...Firemen in gas masks shoveled debris off the track to help the liquid drain off into the pit, from which workers later pumped it into a waiting tank truck...