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Lawsuit by Erie's 1st female firefighter scheduled
TweetPublished: Tue, November 29, 2011 @ 1:44 p.m.
ERIE, Pa. (AP) — A judge says a wrongful firing lawsuit filed by Erie’s first female firefighter will go to trial in January.
Forty-nine-year-old Mary Wolski sued in 2008. City officials say she was dismissed for setting fire to clothes in a bathtub in December 2006, in her father’s vacant home.
The Erie Times-News reports today that Wolski wants the city to reinstate her and pay her lost wages. She was hired in 1997.
Wolski has acknowledged setting the fire in hopes the smoke would kill her, but says she was battling severe depression. She claims the firing violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The trial is scheduled to begin on January 30, in federal court in Erie.
Comments
"City officials say she was dismissed for setting fire to clothes in a bathtub in December 2006, in her father’s vacant home."
Working as a firefighter is demanding and I don't think that Mary is up to the challenge . . ..
What a coincidence. She gets fired and all of a sudden has a disease that is a defense to firing with the American w/ disabilities Act.
Is she really capable of being a Fire Fighter?