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NEW YORK — Fewer firefighters will be hired, training will be reduced and four companies will be closed overnight due to the city’s financial crisis, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said Thursday.

“It’s no secret we’re facing very hard economic times,” Mr. Scoppetta said at a news conference. The FDNY is trying to trim $60 million from its budget as the city faces a multibillion dollar shortfall in the coming years.

As part of the measure, the nation’s largest fire department will close four companies overnight that cover areas of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island. Read more..

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9/11 Bronx Paramedic Remembered & Honored With Plaque

A paramedic who worked at a morgue in the toxic dust of ground zero is being honored two years after she died of lung cancer.

A plaque is expected to be unveiled in memory of New York Fire Department paramedic Deborah Reeve at a ceremony Tuesday at Station 20 in the Morris Park section of the Bronx.

Reeve died on March 16, 2006, of mesothelioma, a lung cancer associated with exposure to asbestos. The 41-year-old developed a cough in late 2003 and retired about a year later, too ill to work.

Her death has not been officially linked to exposure from the 9/11 attacks, though her family and doctors say her cancer was caused by her work at the World Trade Center.

SOURCE: NewsDay.com

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