Calls for Unionization, Improvements in Firefighter Safety, After Deadly Pingtung Blaze

THERE HAVE BEEN calls for improving safety measures for firefighters after a blaze killed four firefighters in Pingtung on Friday. Subsequently, the National Association for Firefighters’ Rights (NAFR) demonstrated on Ketagalan Boulevard on Saturday with a banner listing the names of the 39 firefighters who were killed in the line of duty in the past decade. The incident points to the need for a...

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