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The Past Never Dies In FDNY's Racial Saga

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 9/30/11

There are some striking similarities between Paul Washington and Paul Mannix despite their being polar opposites in the Fire Department exam-discrimination case playing out in Federal Court in Brooklyn: Captain Washington, at 49, is a year older than Deputy Chief Mannix, they each played on the department’s football team, and both have been firefighters for 23 years and see the job as a pathway to a better life for themselves and their families.

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