Firefighter Who Flunked Physical Injured 10 Days Into Job
29th November 2015
A firefighter who was allowed to graduate the Fire Academy despite failing physical tests has already gone out on medical leave — just 10 days into the job, The Post has learned.
Probationary firefighter Choeurlyne Doirin-Holder injured herself Monday while conducting a routine check of equipment at Queens’ Engine 308 in South Richmond Hill. Getting off the truck, Doirin-Holder missed a step and landed on her left foot, suffering a fracture, sources said.
I suppose it would be considered a cheap shot to point out that something like this was predicable and predicted. The mythologies of Political Correctness, which ignore actual physical differences between men and women in service of The Narrative, have as little mercy on their supposed beneficiaries as on their nominal enemies.
Doirin-Holder, who turns 40 this month, is one of 282 “priority hires” passed over in 1999 and 2000. Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis ordered they must get preference as victims of past discrimination against minorities.
Which is fine when it’s just a question of hiring and paying government workers who are members of politically favored groups (all of whom just happen to vote most often for Democrats — purely a coincidence, I’m sure), but when they’re actually called on to do the job, things get a little bit embarrassing.
Since she was injured on duty, she is eligible for a disability pension that would pay three-quarters of her annual salary, tax-free, if deemed unfit to return.
Thereby accomplishing the original political purpose without any benefit to the public. Win-Win!