FDNY Chiefs' Union Pres Says Don't Volunteer

Aug. 8, 2005
Both the UFOA and the Uniformed Firefighters Association say members who join volunteer departments are subject to expulsion from the union.

August 7, 2005 -- Volunteer firefighters are seeing red over comments by the president of the FDNY chiefs' union, who is telling members not to join their hometown volunteer fire departments, The Post has learned. "We ask you not to be a volunteer firefighter in your community," Pete Gorman, president of the United Fire Officers Association, says in his latest report to members.

His words have spread like wildfire around the state, which boasts 94,588 volunteer firefighters

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