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Nearly 40% of Top Fire-Test Takers Black or Latino

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 7/9/18

Of the 2,269 Firefighter candidates called from the top of the new hiring list to take the prep course for the physical aptitude test, 874 were black or Latino:  536 were Hispanic and 338 were African-American.

The statistics were shared June 28 with U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis at a conference on the status of the FDNY Vulcan Society discrimination-lawsuit settlement. 

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