A wannabe firefighter who failed a physical test three times has sued FDNY and the city to try and get a job despite his results

[Sugar Cookie]

A wannabe firefighter who failed a physical test three times has sued FDNY and the city to try and get a job despite his results.

Kevin Walker, 47, from Jamaica, Queens, was a 'priority hire' when he applied for a job in 2013 as he'd already sued the fire department and been given $22,500.

Although passing a qualifying exam, he failed the physical on three occasions as he didn't complete exercises and fell over several times, reports the New York Post.

An FDNY source said: 'It's my understanding that he petitioned the court to just put him in.

'That's absurd if you've already proven . . . that you can't get it done.'

Court documents revealed that Mr Walker failed the tests during May 2013 and his first attempt left him 'grasping at the wall or handrail' while on a stair machine.

When he gave it another go a week later, Mr Walker is said to not have made it past the 20-second warm up on the stair machine as he 'fell' three times.

After this try Mr Walker said a mistake had been made and was given a final chance however he didn't finish the test in the required 10 minutes and 20 seconds.

Mr Walker sued the city in the Manhattan Supreme Court in 2016 claiming that the proctor failed him as retaliation for the earlier law suit.

Mr Walker had already sued New York in the Vulcan Society's case accusing the fire department of discriminating against minority applicants.

The case was settled in 2014 for almost $100 million and Mr Walker was given a $22,500 payout.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Carmen Victoria St. George dismissed Mr Walker’s law suit on December 14.

She said placing him in the department would be unconstitutional as his place on the Civil Service list had expired but said he could try again and retake the test.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...hysical-entry-test-three-times-sues-FDNY.html

 

[Ripley]

You tried, you failed, get lost loser.

 

[lithiumgirl]

Well maybe if he'd stop with the law suits and go to the gym instead he' be farther ahead.

 

[Fellofftheporch]

When he gave it another go a week later, Mr Walker is said to not have made it past the 20-second warm up on the stair machine as he 'fell' three times

Come on now! My fat ass can go 20 seconds without falling once.
Now he is just looking pathetic. I say they let him be the guy who saves kittens from trees. The cat will climb down the tree in pity watching him fall down every 20 seconds.

 

[LFODBiker]

Not very bright is he? It's not a matter of race nit-wit, it's liability.
No insurance is going to cover a department with him as a FF just because he can't pass the physical alone.
Hint - Fire battalions need to focus on doing the 'go into dangerous situations and save lives' thing rather than have to worry about if he can do his job or not.

I've seen NYFD in action, their front line fire battalions earn every gram of respect the people give them.

 

[Brillig]

But, but.... he IDENTIFIES as a firefighter!

 

[cubby]

My fat ass can go 20 seconds without falling once.

My 60 yo unhealthy fat ass can do better than that. Damn he is pathetic. In several different ways.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

I think he's wrung the FDNY dry for lawsuits.
Time to try the Police, Sanitation, Transit, other city orgs for lawsuit opportunities. Don't forget to fall down inside Starbucks and sue them!

 

[Babs]

Lazy, entitled maroooooon!

 

[JackBurton]

Sounds like the earlier lawsuit was a class action type of thing doesnt it? 100 million dollar settlement, he got a small 20 grand piece of it, others had to be involved too. Sounds like FDNY was doing some shady bullshit when it came to minorities if they settled like that.

This shit is nonsense though, clearly.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

Dude, your bridge is burned.
Move on already.

 

[Sejanus]

Shiftless lazy incompetent and grotesquely of shape. He already got money for being a fat sack of s*** and now he's going to try again. He is nothing more than a common ripoff artist and a grifter. Scumbag probably Spends His Life on welfare when he's not suing for a job that he's unfit to have in the first place

 

[myra manes]

Three strikes and he's out! :hilarious:

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Once he became a firefighter he would claim an injury and start receiving disability.

It has already happened with a few individuals who sued the police depart and fire department hired and than went on to collect disability.

New York state should let people know since they have to hire incompetent people so that they do not appear racist you can not sue the police, fire or the EMT because diversity is a strength even if it can't carry your fat ass down a flight of stairs.

 

[Siobhan]

No FD will accept a person who can't pass the physical tests - you are expected to be able to move a 50' extension ladder approximately 25 yards alone; climb rope and chain ladders, and in places like NYC, there are still a few departments that require you to be able to use a pompier ladder as well (the most difficult and dangerous ladder in firefighting); learning how to use your SCBA properly; taking a hose into a 5 story smoke filled buildings with your mask blacked out and getting to the top floor by stairs with the hose and then following the hose back outside within a time limit; and so much more, I'd fill 2 posts just to list.

I've done the 30hr, 60hr, and 90hr courses for volunteer firefighting (no paid FD in my area, other than Forestry), and those were increasingly tougher than I imagined after the easy 30hr course.
I couldn't pass the initial physical today, the only way I could serve is in station dispatch and coordination capacity.

If you can't pass the initial physical, you will never make it through the required 360 hours of the course and the rigourous training that gets exponentially harder throughout the course.
Also, nearly all professional fire departments now require all firefighters to be dual trained, with either an EMT or a paramedic level of field medicine licensing.

This guy sounds like a grifter looking for a payoff - or there is an off chance that he could be a sputterbug in the making who's obsessed with firefighters/fire departments and will end up being a serial arsonist.
*shrugs*