Broad Shoulders? Really?
NYC firefighters rush into burning skyscrapers and Chicago firefighters...complain the sirens are too loud.
From the 10K filing of a public company that makes the sirens:
"The Company has been sued in Chicago, Illinois by firefighters seeking damages claiming that exposure to the Company’s sirens has impaired their hearing and that the sirens are therefore defective. There are presently 33 cases filed during the period 1999-2004, involving a total of 2,498 plaintiffs pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois."
Kinda hurts the tough guy image, to say nothing of the fact that loud sirens are necessary to warn traffic and pedestrians thus saving lives. I doubt the Chicago Fire Department really wants to kill people on their way to a fire. This smacks of an unholy collaboration between the firefighters union and trial lawyers.
From the 10K filing of a public company that makes the sirens:
"The Company has been sued in Chicago, Illinois by firefighters seeking damages claiming that exposure to the Company’s sirens has impaired their hearing and that the sirens are therefore defective. There are presently 33 cases filed during the period 1999-2004, involving a total of 2,498 plaintiffs pending in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois."
Kinda hurts the tough guy image, to say nothing of the fact that loud sirens are necessary to warn traffic and pedestrians thus saving lives. I doubt the Chicago Fire Department really wants to kill people on their way to a fire. This smacks of an unholy collaboration between the firefighters union and trial lawyers.
posted by Donny Baseball at 9:16 AM
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