Outraged New York City lawmakers on both sides of the aisle called on Mayor Eric Adams and the FDNY to help the family of a terminated firefighter who died of a heart attack after he was let go to help pay for the city’s migrants.
Derek Floyd, 36, suffered a fatal heart attack earlier this month leaving his family to struggle in the absence of more than $600,000 in death benefits they would have received had he still be employed by the FDNY when he passed away, according to the New York Post.
Floyd was reportedly cut from the department – just months before he would have been vested with five years on the job – as part of the city’s cost-cutting measure to pay for nearly $10 billion to feed and house the thousands of migrants who have flooded New York City in recent months.
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