Showing posts with label firefighters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firefighters. Show all posts

16 February 2016

For NYC Firefighters Learning Mandarin, Service Starts With 'Ni Hao'



On Thursday nights near the Brooklyn, N.Y., waterfront, an old firehouse turns into a schoolhouse, where the drills are in Chinese. The students are some of New York's bravest.

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20 November 2014

‘We ain’t taking no n*ggers here’: Kentucky fire chief refuses to help black family in traffic accident





A Kentucky fire chief is being criticized for racist comments after he refused to help a family of stranded motorists because they were black, and then suggested that an Asian-American television reporter did not understand English.



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