A Queens man says he unfairly lost his chance to join the FDNY Âbecause he was busy fighting a war.
Brian Conway says he took the civil-service firefighter’s exam in 2007 and passed, landing on the hiring list as Candidate No. 332, according to his Brooklyn federal-court lawsuit.
But the now-35-year-old Army Reservist was on his second deployment overseas when the FDNY offered him a chance to join the Fire Academy in 2008, so he had to decline.
He was honorably discharged in 2010, and asked the FDNY to put him on a special military eligibility list for the next academy class.
But a judge declared the 2007 exam discriminatory, and told the FDNY to stop hiring those exam-takers. Now Conway wants a judge to let him join the next class.