A New York City firefighter has died of a heart attack months after being laid off due to the city’s cost-cutting measures.
A New York City firefighter has died of a heart attack months after being laid off due to the city’s cost-cutting measures to pay for the ongoing migrant crisis.
Derek Floyd, 36, reportedly suffered cardiac arrest and died earlier this month, which came four months after “the city gave him the boot as part of a larger effort to pare down staff and pay for housing and services for the tens of thousands of migrants flooding the Big Apple,” according to the New York Post.
Sources with the FDNY said that Floyd and 10 other firefighters received a pink slip this past Christmas after being on “long term duty,” meaning they had either suffered an injury on the job and had been given office work or had an extended illness.
“Floyd, a veteran who served three tours in the Middle East with the Marines, had been among those working a desk job — toiling in the Fire Department chaplain’s office — because he had suffered another heart attack in 2019 while he was in the Fire Academy,” noted the Post.
