Wannabe firefighter who failed physical test 3 times sues to get job anyway
A firefighter wannabe who failed the FDNY physical test three times has sued the city and the department, demanding he get the job anyway, in a brazen effort an FDNY source called “absurd.”
Kevin Walker, 47, had been a lead plaintiff in the Vulcan Society’s class-action case against the city, which accused the department of discriminating against minority firefighter applicants and was settled in 2014 for $100 million. The Jamaica, Queens, resident got $22,500 of that payout.
Because of Walker’s participation in the case, he became a “priority hire” when he passed the 2013 qualifying exam and would have been allowed to come aboard well past the usual maximum age of 35 — but was not able to because he repeatedly flunked the physical test.